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Strategic Analysis of Competitiveness and Innovation in the Tourism and Telecommunications Industries: Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Garrido, Celso - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …

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From Cybersecurity to Cybercrime: A Framework for Analysis and Implementation

Zaballos, Antonio García; Herranz, Félix González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This technical note outlines a framework for the analysis of cybersecurity, presenting considerations that are crucial to the success of a holistic and transversal cybersecurity strategy. It describes two essential pieces of the analysis: the broadband ecosystem and the basic terminology and...

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Methodology for the Broadband Development Index (IDBA) for Latin America and the Caribbean

Zaballos, Antonio García; Herranz, Félix González; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This discussion paper describes the methodology used to compute the Broadband Development Index (IDBA, Indice de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha). The main goal of the IDBA is to size the Digital Divide in Latin America and the Caribbean by measuring the state of broadband development in the 26...

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Keeping It Covered

Andersen, Martin Edwin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

This conference discusses the responsibility of media when reporting on crime and the hidden purposes coverage may pursue. The interpretation of crime phenomenon by the press has become a two-edged sword for policymakers and the public. The return to democratic rule throughout the region has...

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Promoting Investment in Information and Communications Technologies in the Caribbean

Stern, Peter A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

in the Caribbean and compares the current telecommunications policy and regulatory framework with that of the mid 1990s … Trade Organization negotiations on basic telecommunications. The report also examines telecommunications pricing issues, the … it discusses regulatory barriers to investment in the telecommunications sector and recommends a number of actions to …

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Regulation and Contractual Adaptation in Public Utilities: The Case of Argentina

Artana, Daniel; Navajas, Fernando; Urbiztondo, Santiago - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

This paper (IFM-115) evaluates a set of contractual adjustments, renegotiations and disputes that have taken place in different public utility industries in Argentina since 1991, considering: 1) Whether the decisions analyzed are inside the initial contract or represent a modification of it; 2)...

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High-Growth SMEs in Latin American Emerging Economies

Llisterri, Juan J.; García-Alba, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

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Mobile Banking: Revolution to Reach the Unbanked

Yeon-Hak, Kim - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

Mobile Banking: A revolution to reach the unbanked. The experience of KTF in Korea.

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Innovative Technologies in Microfinance for Latin America: Building Effective Delivery Channels: Summary of the Microfinance Workshop on the Use of Information Technology to Deliver Financial Services, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 16-17, 2003

Castello, Sergio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

Success of MFIs in Latin America depends on: adopting technologies in delivery channels like ATMs and PDAs; successfully implementing virtual delivery channels like mobile finance and remote transaction systems; and cooperation among MFIs to reduce IT investment cost and increase standardization.

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Review of International Best Practices of Programs to Promote Regional Innovation Systems

Pietrobelli, Carlo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper has two main objectives. First, it aims at briefly reviewing the concept of Regional Innovation System (RIS) as it has been proposed in the literature, and especially in light of the use that this notion has often had for policy purposes. Second, it reviews considerable empirical...

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