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The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
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This paper is devoted to examining the scope, outcomes and shortcomings of reforms aimed at introducing competition in … and Mexico are used as examples. The paper includes the following sections: 1) Introduction; 2) Features of a monopolistic … model; 3) Analysis of a model with competition at each sector segment; 4) Comparison of different structures of wholesale …
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The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564032
Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such progress requires mobilizing capital, employment, technology and knowledge. Opportunities beyond the business realm must be fully exploited to the benfit of society as a whole....
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The Bank has prepared a new set of strategies, presented in this volume, for the two overarching objectives established … State). The four priority areas were defined, among other things, in view of the current challenges; the Bank's presence in …
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) views competitiveness as the potential of a country to grow in a sustained way over the medium to long term and thus create prosperity for its citizens. The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), developed by Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University...
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of the Bank's operations in 2003. In addition, the Report contains a description on a country-by-country basis and a … regional basis of the Bank's various operations -loans, guarantees, financings for small projects and technical cooperation- on … Bank; and its general appendices. The Board of Directors approved two new instruments in 2003: the conditional credit line …
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.Abstract: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank), in its Ninth General Capital Increase (IDB-9), committed to improve … country systems in order to increase their use in programs financed by Bank resources. This report examines the implementation … fiduciary assessments that underpin the opportunities for increasing the use of country systems by the Bank, and the new …
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General Increase in the Resources of the Inter-American Development Bank"- leading to the Bank's Ninth General Capital …, development effectiveness, and efficiency of the Bank to help it remain relevant and competitive in the years ahead. IDB's Office … priority recommendations to help the Bank move forward effectively on this broad range of fronts. More in-depth findings and …
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DataGov is a database that contains governance indicators around the world. The DataGov indicators come from publicly available sources including academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, private firms and multilateral agencies. They cover four major areas: democracy, markets,...
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