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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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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...
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Zona Euro: un adevăr care nu convine
Lucian, Croitoru - In: Revista OEconomica (2012) 03
In this study, we show that the main problem facing the Eurozone economy is the relatively low competitiveness of the PIIGS economies. Findings show that the defining trait of PIIGS countries is neither budget deficits, nor public debt, but rather the current account deficits. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965609
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Are We Going to Have Deflation and Current Account Surpluses? [Vom avea deflaţie şi surplusuri de cont curent?]
Lucian, Croitoru - In: Revista OEconomica (2013) 02
In this study we show that the inflation rate and the current account behaved according to historical regularities, once the international crisis hit Romania in the second half of 2008. Inflation has decreased relatively fast for a long period of time, and the current account deficit has reduced...
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Produtividade e comércio: a importância do aprendizado no comércio exterior brasileiro
Filho, Hélio de Sousa Ramos; Hidalgo, Álvaro Barrantes - In: Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE 43 (2013) 1, pp. 203-222
a evidência internacional sobre o assunto. <P> Productivity and trade: the importance of learning in Brazilian foreign … trade :: The aim of this paper is to analyze the productivity gains generated by the learning process of Brazilian firms in … international trade. Using the Abadie-Imbens estimator, we evaluated productivity differences between exporting and non …
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International employment policies: adjustment patterns and problems in Eastern European countries: an international comparison.
Z, Bekker - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987
Identifies to what extent, and in which way external shocks and the need for a different development pattern has affected economic growth in for Eastern European countries.
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