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Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

China's meteoric emergence in the last decade and its profound impact on the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has eclipsed the importance of the region's other…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto;Benavente, José Miguel;Campusano, Rolando;Cuevas, Conrado

This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Monge-González, Ricardo;Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio;Hewitt, John;Orozco, Jeffrey;Ruiz, Keynor

This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Gutierrez, María Elena;Mommens, Xavier

The purpose of this study is to show how microfinance services may undergo the impacts of climate change, to analyze the opportunities available for MFIs and to propose concrete actions. This paper…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Aboal, Diego;Garda, Paula;Lanzilotta, Bibiana;Perera, Marcelo

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Card, David;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Villa, Juan Miguel

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs), and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Moguillansky, Graciela

This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growth in developing countries. It argues that…

Date issued: Sep 2011
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Almonacid, Monica;Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes;Ruiz, Nelson;Pardo, Alejandro;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

This evaluation examines the IDB's Country Program with Haiti for the 2007-2011 period. IDB's strategic positioning in Haiti during this period was affected by the materialization of risks…

Date issued: Sep 2011
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Almonacid, Monica;Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes;Ruiz, Nelson;Pardo, Alejandro;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

Esta evaluación examina el Programa de País del BID con Haití para el período 2007-2011. El posicionamiento estratégico del BID en Haití durante este período se vio afectado por la materialización de…

Date issued: Sep 2011
Author(s): Chrisney, Martin D.;Kamiya, Marco

Este documento presenta una contribución al desarrollo de una herramienta de análisis de programas de desarrollo productivo (PDP). La propuesta metodológica del Mapeo e Índice de Desempeño…