The IDB Group, guided by its Strategy for Microenterprise Development, has made the creation of a sustainable market of services to the sector one of its most important priorities during the past decade. This report presents an overview of the contributions the IDB has made to the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. About ‘Strategy for Existing Geography and Business’ -- Chapter 2. Business Model -- Chapter 3. Strategy Blueprint -- Chapter 4. Financial Plan -- Part 2. About ‘Strategy for New Geographies and/or Businesses’ and ‘Strategy & Execution’ -- Chapter...

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....

This report presents the results of a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Latin America and East Asia. It focuses on the process of creation of new companies. That process is analyzed at three different stages: inception of the entrepreneurial venture, company start-up, and its early...

This paper aims to shed light on changes in the saving behavior of microentrepreneurs in response to improved access to credit. This paper argues that it is necessary to extend the analysis to the shifting of assets between different forms of savings. The econometric analysis in this paper,...

This paper discusses the main ideas of the cluster literature and the more established modern economic thought. Based on the economic analysis, it proposes an evaluation methodology with a strong emphasis on the economic impact of the programs. The paper provides an additional set of indicators...

This paper presents a retrospective review of several key areas of work of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to...

Le rapport annuel contient un bref résumé de la situation économique en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes, ainsi qu'un examen des activités de l'institution en 2001. Il comporte aussi une description des diverses opérations de la Banque pour chaque pays et pour la région -prêts,...

The GCM Informer is a monthly newsletter from the Grants and Co- Financing Unit (GCM). The newsletter is intended to inform users of grant financing with useful news and information.Abstract: GCM te informa es un boletín mensual de la Unidad de Gestión de Donaciones y Cofinanciamiento. Su...