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Civil Society Organizations in Latin America as a Democratic Anchor for Long-Term Social Development
Gómez, Santiago - 2013
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the “social capital” theories that link civil society and democracy. Using data from the Civil Society Index for 44 countries, we find that not only this relationship exists, but that civil society is also positively correlated with human...
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Industry and Economic Development in Latin America
Guisan, Maria-Carmen; Aguayo, E. - 2008
We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries … Manufacturing in Latin American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215550
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903965
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155323
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Competitiveness in the Latin American Manufacturing Sector : Trends and Determinants
García-Herrero, Alicia - 2018
manufacturing sectors of most countries in the region went down from 2007 to 2012, after relatively favourable progress in the … productivity. The main exception to these regional trends is Mexico, where gains in the manufacturing sector's competitiveness … been making it difficult for the Mexican manufacturing sector to gain competitiveness. Case studies of each of the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921971
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Guevara, Carolina; Riou, Stéphane; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
the manufacturing from the service industry. The magnitude of the externalities from diversity is positive and significant … in manufacturing but much higher in the service industry. Interestingly, our regressions exhibit the non …
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Forecasting Inflation in Latin America with Core Measures
Pincheira, Pablo M. - 2017
We explore the ability of core inflation to predict headline CPI annual inflation for a sample of 8 developing economies in Latin America during the period January 1995-May 2017. Our in-sample and out-of-sample results are roughly consistent in providing evidence of predictability in the great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950890
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Policy Evaluations of Microenterprise Business Support Services in Latin America : a Systematic Review
Padilla Angulo, Laura; Lasarte López, Jesús Miguel; … - 2022
Microenterprises represent 88.4% of Latin American enterprises, and many countries in the region have developed microenterprise promotion policies in recent years; however, rigorous evaluation remains a pending issue. To shed light on the research done on this topic over 20 years and propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241396
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Tourism as a driver of economic development : the Colombian experience
Benković, Andreja; Mejía, Juan Felipe - 2008
The current paper analyzes the importance and potentials of the tourism sector for economic development. It is divided into four major parts. After a short introduction, section two presents some theoretical insights into the topic of economic development. Commenting on the most relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958838