This summary of the presentations and discussions of the participants in the meeting "Competitiveness of Small Enterprises: Clusters, Business Environment and Local Development", aims to find the common thread that ties the themes of the presentations together.

Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a priority policy goal in Central America, Panama and Dominican Republic for the past twenty years. Fiscal benefits are among the policies that have been used to attract it. At first sight the model followed has been fruitful. In 2013 the...

Improving remittance flows between Latin America and the US involving stronger ties with financial institutions and a favorable money transfer system would subsequently increase consumption, savings, and investment.

This paper explores the competitive threat posed by People's Republic of China (PRC) to Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). It focuses on the impact of PRC's rise as a major exporter of manufactures, but it also considers bilateral trade between LAC and PRC.

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebreated on December 11th and 12th, 2003. A comparative institutional diagnosis of civil service systems. Indices of 17 countries.

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 23rd and 24th, 2005. OECD's Senior Budget Officials Network. How it has grown over the past 25 years. The insularity of budget...

This presentation was commissioned for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting of the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue celebrated on December 15th, 2004 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Compare and analyze salaries of senior public officials in six...

Undergraduate students and researchers at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present their research on corporate entrepreneurship, within the framework of MIF's "Enterprise Solutions to Poverty" initiative.