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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …
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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...
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Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Maffioli, Alessandro; Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges
Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...
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Productivity in Cargo Handling in Spanish Ports During a Period of Regulatory Reforms
Díaz-Hernández, Juan; Martínez-Budría, Eduardo; … - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 8 (2008) 2, pp. 287-295
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Dynamics Of Rice Economy In India: Emerging Scenario And Policy Options
Barah B.C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
discriminatory against the resource poor areas, which is also dominated by small and marginal farmers. Productivity ranges from a …
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Introducing the Railway Budget 2008-2009
Prasad, Lalu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Lalu Prasad
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Productivity, Hours Worked, and Tax/Benefit Systems in Europe and Beyond
Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the … of the 1960-2004 period to explain the developments. Taxes and gross replacement rates do not correlate with productivity …
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