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Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): Heikel, María Victoria;Piras, Claudia

El objeto de esta nota es presentar el diagnóstico y análisis de la situación de la perspectiva de género en el Paraguay, con el fin de identificar áreas de continuidad, profundización e innovación…

Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Herron, Hope;Bohn, Bill;Roy, Sujoy;Evans, Warren

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Environmental Safeguards Unit (ESG) initiated this study to address the need to better understand how to assess and address climate change related risks in…

Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): García, Pablo M.;Bafundo, Fiorella

The global services industry shows steady growth and a very dynamic pathcharacterized by unprecedented fast movements towards higher value services, constant changes in business as well as in service…

Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): Carballo, Jerónimo;Graziano, Alejandro;Schaur, Georg;Volpe Martincus, Christian

Time delays in international transactions impose trade costs. We examine transaction level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the…

Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): Cadot, Olivier;Graziano, Alejandro;Harris, Jeremy;Volpe Martincus, Christian

This paper estimates empirically the effect of preference utilization on export growth at the level of the firm using a unique transaction-level dataset of Colombia's imports from Argentina,…

Date issued: Απρ 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto;Zahler, Andrés

In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by…

Date issued: Απρ 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Van Biesebroeck, Johannes

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms self-selecting into exporting, a few studies find evidence of reverse causation.…

Date issued: Απρ 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2014 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: Μαρ 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Powell, Andrew

Monetary normalization may be a chronicle foretold, but countries still have the power to influence the outcome for their own economies. This report focuses on the risks Latin American and Caribbean…

Date issued: Μαρ 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Powell, Andrew

Puede que la normalización monetaria sea una crónica anunciada, pero los países siguen teniendo la capacidad de influir en el destino de sus propias economías. Este informe se centra en los riesgos…