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Improving Credit Risk Analysis with Psychometrics in Peru
Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim; LaMonte, Joseph - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly informal enterprises with no borrowing history in the formal financial system. Lenders lack the tools to reach these borrowers with sufficient scale and control over risk due...
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Ciencia, tecnología e innovación en América Latina y el Caribe: Un compendio estadístico de indicadores Title: Science, Technology, and Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbea...
Crespi, Gustavo; Navarro, Juan Carlos; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of … competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human capital and financial inputs into innovation systems …, scientific and innovation outputs, innovative behavior by firms, the links between changes in economic structure, technological …
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Remessas de Recursos de Brasileiros Residentes no Exterior
Mattoso, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
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Group Support to the Microenterprise Sector: (1990-2000)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
The IDB Group, guided by its Strategy for Microenterprise Development, has made the creation of a sustainable market of services to the sector one of its most important priorities during the past decade. This report presents an overview of the contributions the IDB has made to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291848
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Can Financial Market Policies Reduce Income Inequality?
Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper marshals substantial arguments and data to support the contention that improving the access of micro and small enterprises to financial services could have an important salutary impact on a country's income distribution. To demonstrate this, the paper shows first that many poor own or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320046
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Microfinance: From Village to Wall Street?
Jansson, Tor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents a synopsis of the current state of the microfinance industry in Latin America. It provides a rough assessment of the achievement and outreach of the industry; it offers revealing information on the financial performance of 20 microfinance institutions; and it outlines some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324024
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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...
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Firm Size and Credit in Argentina
Auguste, Sebastián; Bebczuk, Ricardo N.; Sánchez, Gabriel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The goal of this paper is to study the link between bank credit (and internal funding) and average firm size in …
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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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Incapacity to Pay or Moral Hazard?: Public Mortgage Delinquency Rates in Chile
Marcano, Luis Teodoro; Ruprah, Inder jit - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
High delinquency rate of publicly provided mortgages in social housing programs are often interpreted to be due to moral hazard. In this working paper, the authors show that the typically used parametric approaches give misleading results due to overlooked confounding and selection biases. As...
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