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Date issued: Oct 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Artola, Ner;Zepeda, Eduardo;Rabellotti, Roberta;Gomes, Raquel;Amighini, Alessia;Maggi Campos, Claudio;Villaschi Filho, Arlindo;Pietrobelli, Carlo;Cassiolato, José Eduardo;Parrilli, Mario Davide;Ruiz Durán, Clemente;Giuliani, Elisa;Lastres, Helena M. M.

Globalization poses the imperative for firms to link with other actors and find new ways to interact and learn from the relationship. Employing original empirical evidence and featuring new case…

Date issued: Oct 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): León, Gianmarco;Koechlin, Valerie

The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on the relationship between international remittances and income inequality. In simple cross-country regressions we find a non-…

Date issued: Oct 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rochet, Jean-Charles

This paper develops a model of sovereign debt where governments are myopic. Instead of focusing on the incentives to repay, as in most of the theoretical literature on the topic (which assumes…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Le Grazie, Reinaldo;Fernandez, Jose Maria

In light of the challenges to structure and develop bond markets amid changing environments, the Inter-American Development Bank set a project that aims to diagnose the current conditions for…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Cosio-Pascal, Enrique

The paper aims to be a useful analytical and managerial support tool for the debt practitioners and for the academia. It provides an appropriate approach for developing countries, and offers a…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Claret Campos Filho, Antonio

Presentación comisionada por el Diálogo Regional de Política sobre el Cadastro Unico de Brasil, para la Reunión Subregional Centroamericana de la Red de Pobreza y Protección Social.

Date issued: Oct 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Blyde, Juan S.

What are the main issues in Chile's trade agenda? This paper argues that the country's agenda does not lend itself to that traditional kind of policy advice usually given throughout Latin…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Jank, Marcos Sawaya;Yao, Shunli;Carter, Colin A.;Jales, Mário Queiroz de Monteiro

This paper analyzes the asymmetries and complementarities between Brazil's and China's agricultural sectors. Brazil and China are key players in world agriculture. Both countries are among…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Dee, Philippa;Findlay, Christopher

This paper surveys recent developments in the literature on trade facilitation, defined broadly as reform of non-tariff barriers. The paper looks at what trade facilitation is, why it matters, how to…

Date issued: Oct 2006
Author(s): Navarro, Juan Carlos

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in…