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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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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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The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned …
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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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This paper outlines some of the issues that affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in three areas: regulation, procurement, and dispute resolution. The work presented herein is part of the Bank's most recent efforts to develop new approaches and instruments to strengthen its role as a...
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Several developed and developing countries started to integrate their specialized supervisory institutions into a single entity during the past few years. A debate on the pros and cons of integrated supervision models emerged recently. Issues in favor and against integration have been...
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Small and medium enterprises are estimated to account for at least 10 percent of the number of total businesses in most Latin American countries and between 20-40 percent of total employment. In the 1990's, 30 percent of new jobs were created by SMEs. Small companies have played a major role in...
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El presente documento presenta algunos de los aspectos más destacados referentes a los efectos del Nuevo acuerdo de capital de Basilea (NACB) sobre los sistemas financieros de América Latina y el Caribe. Se discuten las implicancias de los cambios propuestos sobre los niveles de capital, la...
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The purpose of this paper, the fourth chapter in a series of discussion papers on private sector development, is to examine issues that are central to financial market development in the Caribbean region. This report identifies factors that are required for financial markets to function...
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This paper represents one of the first comparative analyses of experiences of integrated supervision. It discusses how several countries around the world have developed the processes of integrating financial regulation and supervision, and covers numerous relevant technical issues as well as the...
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