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Date issued:
Mar 1999
This document describes the efforts of the Department of Labor of Rio de Janeiro to build a comprehensive institutional framework focused on the promotion of a long run, micro-firm based local…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar --desde la perspectiva empresarial-- la importancia de los servicios de consultoría y capacitación como herramientas fundamentales para el desarrollo de las…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
The presentation gives a brief overview of the most important aspects of adjustment strategies in the ceramic tile cluster in Criciúma and the textiles and clothing cluster in Itajaí Valley, Brazil.…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
This discussion paper addresses a study undertook a cross-country survey of nearly 300 exporters. The object of the survey was to determine what types of services exporters actually used, which ones…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
This presentation discusses business development services and providers, in the context of developing a stronger industry.
Date issued:
Mar 1999
This document describes how pro-market aid works and gives practical lessons from specific schemes of aid projects. This presentation took place at the Inter-American Development Bank's…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
The Conference gave impetus to the changing paradigm for assistance to small enterprises: away from the direct provision of business development services by governments and donor agencies toward the…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
This paper sums up the experience of a Brazilian cluster of small and medium enterprises in the Sinos Valley. It shows that cooperation amongst local enterprises strengthens their ability to compete…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
This presentation discusses the promotion of SMEs through enterprise networks. Some of the benefits of clustering can be obtained through the promotion of networks of enterprises, often numbering…
Date issued:
Mar 1999
Este documento destaca las principales tendencias y líneas de acción en las iniciativas de fomento empresarial, desarrollo económico local y fortalecimiento municipal, que pueden deducirse de las…