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Análise e trajetória do Programa Centros Vocacionais Tecnológicos no Brasil
Castioni, Remi; Bouskela, Mauricio; Radaelli, Vanderléia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Esta nota técnica trata de uma importante iniciativa implantada pelo governo brasileiro e que visa atender a múltiplos propósitos dada a dimensão territorial do país. O Programa de Implementação e Modernização dos Centros Vocacionais Tecnológicos foi o ponto de partida para que o...
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Public Development Banks: Addressing the Challenges of Financing Climate Change Mitigation
Smallridge, Diana; Lorenzo, José Juan Gomes; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Though the need to scale up financing to mitigate climate change and the associated challenges and barriers are well documented, there has been little discussion of the role that can be played by Public Development Banks (PDBs), either national or subnational. These institutions have a...
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El impacto de los servicios financieros y de capacitación en las MiPyME de Costa Rica
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Este trabajo estima el impacto del acceso a ciertos servicios financieros (descuento de facturas, órdenes de compra, garantías de participación y cumplimiento) en el desempeño de un grupo de micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MiPyME) clientes de una entidad de microfinanzas que opera en...
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El sector financiero en Honduras: Visión general y tópicos sobre la red de seguridad financiera
Guerrero, Rosa Matilde; Focke, Kurt S.; Armijos, Simón … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
El sistema financiero de Honduras sufrió el impacto de la crisis financiera de 2009 con un deterioro de los indicadores de calidad de activos y de rentabilidad, que posteriormente experimentaron una recuperación en 2010. En el último año se ha podido notar una preferencia de los agentes por...
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The Role of National Development Banks in Intermediating International Climate Finance to Scale Up Private Sector Investments
Smallridge, Diana; Buchner, Barbara; Trabacchi, Chiara; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
finance flows fall short of global financing needs, and massive scaling up is needed to unlock additional financial resources … international climate finance can play a catalytic role in this regard. National development banks (NDBs) have a unique role in this … international and national public climate finance in their respective local credit markets and the conditions that would be needed …
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Las nuevas oportunidades para las instituciones financieras de desarrollo en América Latina
Olloqui, Fernando de; Arancibia, Cristián Palma - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Desde principios de la década pasada, los gobiernos de la región han mostrado un renovado interés en las instituciones financieras de desarrollo (IFD) como un instrumento de apoyo para lograr una mayor penetración financiera y cumplir distintos objetivos de desarrollo. Su relevancia creció...
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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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