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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155323
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Competitiveness in the Latin American Manufacturing Sector : Trends and Determinants
García-Herrero, Alicia - 2018
manufacturing sectors of most countries in the region went down from 2007 to 2012, after relatively favourable progress in the … productivity. The main exception to these regional trends is Mexico, where gains in the manufacturing sector's competitiveness … been making it difficult for the Mexican manufacturing sector to gain competitiveness. Case studies of each of the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921971
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578127
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Guevara, Carolina; Riou, Stéphane; Autant-Bernard, Corinne - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
the manufacturing from the service industry. The magnitude of the externalities from diversity is positive and significant … in manufacturing but much higher in the service industry. Interestingly, our regressions exhibit the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480264
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Industrial agglomeration in Costa Rica : a descriptive analysis
Kumagai, Satoru; Ueki, Yasushi; Bullón, David; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper investigates the current situation of industrial agglomeration in Costa Rica, utilizing firm-level panel data for the period 2008-2012. We calculated Location Quotient and Theil Index based on employment by industry and found that 14 cantons have the industrial agglomerations for 9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249495
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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
6500 manufacturing firms across 20 Latin American countries. The econometric results point out two major conclusions. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260711
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Evolucion de la inmigracion neta en España, Europa y America, 1965-2004
GUISAN, Carmen - In: Estudios Economicos de Desarrollo Internacional 5 (2005) 2, pp. 91-102
Este artículo analiza la evolución creciente del número de emigrantes netos desde algunos países del mundo. Se analiza de forma especial la evolución de la inmigración neta en España, Europa, Estados Unidos, Canadá y América Latina, durante el período 1965-2004, y se insiste en la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005243526
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Forecasting Inflation in Latin America with Core Measures
Pincheira, Pablo M. - 2017
We explore the ability of core inflation to predict headline CPI annual inflation for a sample of 8 developing economies in Latin America during the period January 1995-May 2017. Our in-sample and out-of-sample results are roughly consistent in providing evidence of predictability in the great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950890
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Policy Evaluations of Microenterprise Business Support Services in Latin America : a Systematic Review
Padilla Angulo, Laura; Lasarte López, Jesús Miguel; … - 2022
Microenterprises represent 88.4% of Latin American enterprises, and many countries in the region have developed microenterprise promotion policies in recent years; however, rigorous evaluation remains a pending issue. To shed light on the research done on this topic over 20 years and propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241396
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Upgrading in global value chains: lessons from latin american clusters
Giuliani, Elisa; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Rabellotti, Roberta - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi … - 2004
The literature on industrial districts in advanced and less developed countries has shown that clustering helps local enterprises overcome growth constraints and compete in distant markets. Nevertheless, recent contributions have stressed that more attention needs to be paid to external linkages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744235