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Date issued:
Dec 2005
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El Programa Global de Crédito para la Microempresa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) provee financiamiento a los bancos comerciales y otros intermediarios financieros formales para…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
The first article in this issue of Microenterprise Development Review discusses how banks can adapt scoring to microenterprise loans and how scoring can be adapted to microlenders. It also discusses…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
Este número de Microempresa incluye dos artículos principales. En el primero se analiza la forma en la que los bancos pueden adaptar el scoring estadístico para sus préstamos de consumo. También se…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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This paper discusses coordination failures, their relevance to developing countries, and the circumstances under which they occur, arguing that that clusters can be seen as agglomerations of firms…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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Industrial agglomerations or 'clusters' arise in the presence of industry-specific and local externalities, also called Marshallian externalities. The standard argument is that such…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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This paper studies the relationship between creditor protection and credit volatility. During the negative phase of the business cycle, credit contracts more in countries with poor creditor…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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We suggest that foreign banks may represent a trade-off for their developing country hosts. A portfolio model is developed to show that a more diversified international bank may be one of lower,…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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This paper takes advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was required by government to randomly install and operate public pay phones in…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
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There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an innovation shortfall, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (R…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
III Inter American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Proceedings,Santiago Chile.