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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important … role. The reverse happens for manufacturing; technological innovations are the relevant ones for productivity. …
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Lessons from Innovation: Skills Standards and Certification
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004
competitiveness and productivity of workers and industries throughout the region. …
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important … role. The reverse happens for manufacturing; technological innovations are the relevant ones for productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741896
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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741923
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Lessons from Innovation: Skills Standards and Certification
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004
competitiveness and productivity of workers and industries throughout the region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198326
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Innovation and Productivity in the Colombian Service Industry
Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez, Hernando; Taborda, Rodrigo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper presents the results of a study on the ways that innovation and productivity are connected in the Colombian …. Finally, labor productivity is greatly enhanced by the introduction of innovations, although surprisingly the estimated …
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Evaluation of the Fund for Special Operations during the Eighth Replenishment (1994-2010): Part II Title: Evaluación del fondo para operaciones especiales durante el Octavo Aumento...
Raw, Silvia; Sembler, Jose Ignacio; Sadeghi, Patricia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The objective of this evaluation is to complete the assessment of the performance of IDB's concessional lending program focusing on financial and developmental results. The evaluation found that the IDB remained the largest single source of concessional financing for the five poorest countries...
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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395237
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Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Maffioli, Alessandro; Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...
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