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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean firms. With the cooperation of several public agencies, participants and non-participants in these programs during the period 1995-2000 were identified from a large panel of firms...

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Cluster Development Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from the Experience of the Inter-American Development Bank

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Stevenson, Claudia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

National and local governments, international organizations and donors are increasingly using the instrument of cluster development programs (CDP) to promote economic development. This paper builds on the recent experiences of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in financing and executing...

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Evaluation of Transnational Programs at the IDB Title: Evaluación de los programas transnacionales en el BID

Puerta, Juan Manuel; Corrales, Maria Elena; Atuesta, Laura - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This evaluation assesses IDB's role in contributing to the coordinated solution of transnational challenges during the period 2000-2011. The evaluation found that the relevance and effectiveness of IDB's Technical Cooperation program has been limited - in particular the Regional Public Good...

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Oversight Note on Credit Risk Management Title: Nota de supervisión sobre la gestión del riesgo crediticio

Soriano, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This evaluation examines IDB's management of credit risk of Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Operations. Although the IDB is not subject to the Principles for the Management of Credit Risk issued by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, these principles have been used as guidelines for this...

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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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Brechas de infraestructura, crecimiento y desigualdad en los países andinos

Zambrano, Omar; Aguilera-Lizarazu, Gabriela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

Por diversas razones y canales de transmisión, el stock y la calidad de la infraestructura de un país es un indicador fundamental de su nivel de desarrollo y del bienestar general que ofrece a sus habitantes. El presente documento calcula las brechas de infraestructura para la subregión...

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Inter-Firm Linkages and Finance in Value Chains

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Navas-Alemán, Lizbeth; Kamiya, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The literature on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance highlights linkages with large firms in value chains … implications for SMEs. This paper explores this gap by looking for evidence on the impact of SMEs' access to finance of inter … technologies in Costa Rica), a comparison between the different sources and instruments of finance used by SMEs is presented. A …

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Indicadores de riesgo y de gestión del riesgo de los desastres: resultados para Nicaragua

Cardona, Omar D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

Los desastres naturales han repercutido en las perspectivas de desarrollo de muchos de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Nicaragua está al frente de esta infortunada realidad, estando localizada en una de las zonas del mundo más propensa a amenazas naturales. Con el fin de apoyar a...

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Should Public Budgets Finance Convention Centers?

Darling, Arthur H.; Beato, Paulina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned …

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Insurance for the Poor?

Dercon, Stefan; Bold, Tessa; Calvo, César - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

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