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Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Heinrich, Carolyn;Maffioli, Alessandro;Vázquez, Gonzalo

This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Rivas, Gonzalo

En muchos países de América Latina existen dudas sobre la posibilidad de implementar exitosamente políticas de apoyo al desarrollo productivo. Luego de presentar brevemente los antecedentes teóricos…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Aguilar Amilpa, Enrique

Esta nota técnica forma parte de los de productos de conocimiento generados por la Iniciativa de Agua y Saneamiento, aprobada por el Directorio del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en Mayo del 2007…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo

Do all exporters benefit the same from export promotion programs? Surprisingly, not matter how obvious this question may a priori be when thinking of the effectiveness of these programs there is…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo

Entering new export markets is primarily a discrete choice. Even though several empirical papers have used modeling strategies consistent with this fact, no study has examined the effects of public…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo

Export promotion agencies provide exporters with a broad range of services, going from counseling to sponsoring their participation in international trade missions and fairs. These services may have…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo

Information problems involved in trading differentiated goods are a priori acuter than those associated with trading more homogeneous products. The impact of export promotion activities intending to…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo

How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin?…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo;García, Pablo M.

Several countries have implemented programs to support their firms¿ internationalization efforts. Their impacts are likely to be heterogeneous over firm size categories because these programs are…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo;Gallo, Andrés

This paper provides evidence on the channels through which export promotion institutions affect bilateral trade using a sample of Latin American and Caribbean countries over the period 1995-2004. We…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Featuring 27 pieces from the art collections of the IDB and the Organization of American States, it is one of several smaller exhibits on Latin American art from the second half of the 20th century,…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arza, Valeria;López, Andrés

This paper adapts the Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (1998) approach to estimate the relationship between innovation and productivity and the realities of innovative activities in developing countries…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cassoni, Adriana;Ramada, Magdalena

Uruguays inability to sustain high levels of economic growth cannot be fully explained by external shocks, the prevailing institutional setting or the level of human capital accumulation. Instead,…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Winters, Paul;Sitja Rubio, Susana

The purpose of this guideline is to discuss the objectives and approaches of regional (subnational) development programs in order to provide guidance on issues related to evaluating the impact of…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bastos, Paulo;Straume, Odd Rune

This paper develops a two-country, general equilibrium model of oligopoly in which the degree of horizontal product differentiation is endogenously determined by rms strategic investments in product…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Kappaz, Christina;Carvallo, Rosa

El presente estudio tiene como objeto investigar y documentar las buena prácticas del Servicio Nacional de Empleo (SNE) en México y asi contribuir tanto a su mejoramiento como al de los servicios…

Date issued: Aoû 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Herrán, Carlos Alberto;Gremaud, Amaury Patrick;Guimarães, Maria Helena;Pérez Alfaro, Marcelo

A pesquisa "Melhores práticas em escolas de ensino médio no Brasil" originou-se em 2008, quando o Ministério da Educação (MEC) iniciou entendimentos com o BID tendo em vista a necessidade…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Quartesan, Alessandra;Romis, Monica

This paper presents the main findings of a case study of the preservation of the historic center of Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. The historic center of Oaxaca can be considered a well-preserved area…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Zappino, Vincenzo

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site. The working methodology is based on constant interaction with the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and all other…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Spiekermann, Meinolf

This study examines the state of the old cities of Aleppo in the Syrian Arab Republic, Shibam in Hadramaut/Yemen, and Sibiu (former Hermannstadt) in Romania. It focuses on the strategy of integrated…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Zancheti, Sílvio Mendes;Gabriel, Jordelan

This paper presents a succinct overview of the implementation process of the Rehabilitation Plan for the Historic Center of Salvador and assesses the physical, spatial, social, and economic…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Trivelli, Pablo;Nishimura, Yasuyo

This paper analyzes the Historic Center of Valparaiso, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003. The city's vernacular urban fabric and its layout, infrastructure, and…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Jaramillo, Pedro

This study analyzes the Historic Center of Quito, which was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978. The churches, squares, museums, and heritage monuments characterize this area and make…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Bigio, Anthony Gad

This case study of Marrakesh examines the characteristics of its urban dynamics, focusing on the changes brought about by investments made in the tourism and residential housing sectors in recent…

Date issued: Aoû 2010
Author(s): Stumpo, Sergio

This paper analyzes the city of Siracusa, Italy, and in particular the Historic Center of Ortigia. Siracusa and the rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (in the Cassaro, Ferla, and Sortino areas) were…