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Date issued: Apr 2014
Author(s): Blanco Blanco, Andrés;Fretes Cibils, Vicente;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés

Esta investigación demuestra la importancia del alquiler y su potencial en lasolución de los principales problemas habitacionales como los déficits cuantitativos y cualitativos, la limitada…

Date issued: Apr 2014
Author(s): Blanco Blanco, Andrés;Fretes Cibils, Vicente;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés

Esta pesquisa demonstra a importância da locação de imóveis e de seu potencial para resolver os principais problemas habitacionais na região da América Latina e Caribe, como os déficits quantitativos…

Date issued: Apr 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: Apr 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: Apr 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: Apr 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: Apr 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: Apr 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: Apr 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: Apr 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…