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Good Practices in Marketing for Micro and Small Enterprise Products: Cases from Latin-America
Mikkelsen, Lene - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
constraints, marketing service providers play an essential role in developing the businesses of small and micro producers. Based … on three case studies of marketing service providers -from Colombia, Nicaragua and El Salvador- dealing with handicrafts …-term sustainability of marketing services. The study discusses the impact ancillary services have on the ability for partial or full cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322754
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New Export Activities in Brazil: Comparative Advantage, Policy or Self-Discovery?
Bonelli, Regis; Pinheiro, Armando Castelar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
into export markets. Exporters concentrated on design, marketing, R&D, and product assembly, making coordination with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673008
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Good Practices in Marketing for Micro and Small Enterprise Products: Cases from Latin-America
Mikkelsen, Lene - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
constraints, marketing service providers play an essential role in developing the businesses of small and micro producers. Based … on three case studies of marketing service providers -from Colombia, Nicaragua and El Salvador- dealing with handicrafts …-term sustainability of marketing services. The study discusses the impact ancillary services have on the ability for partial or full cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655293
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Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund
Stucchi, Rodolfo; Arráiz, Irani; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper studies the effect of government-backed partial credit guarantees on firms' performance. These guarantees are automatically granted to firms without enough collateral in order to lift their credit constraints. We put together a panel, covering the period 1997-2007, that combines data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943660
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés-Serra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943677
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Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America
Westley, Glenn D.; Shaffer, Sherrill - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining Credit Unions (CUs) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of CUs in Latin America.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943727
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The Impact of Public Credit Programs on Brazilian Firms
Maffioli, Alessandro; Negri, João Alberto De; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public credit lines in promoting the performances of Brazilian firms. We focus on the impact of the credit lines managed by BNDES and FINEP in fostering growth measured in terms of employment, labor productivity and export. For this purpose, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943804
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Why don't All Exporters Benefit from Free Trade Agreements?: Estimating Utilization Costs
Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel method to estimate treaty-utilization costs. We later apply the model to estimate the evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943937
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Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico
Baz, Verónica; Capelo, Maria Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country's development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944052
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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee
Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio; Monge-González, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
selection bias. The results show that both PROPYME and CR Provee have positive and significant impacts on SME performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944064