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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.
Date issued:
Dec 2005
El presente estudio versa sobre el establecimiento de un fondo de estabilización del precio del petróleo que mitigue el impacto del aumento en el precio internacional del crudo sobre las economías…
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Dec 2005
El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo medir los posibles efectos directos e indirectos en la economía rural de las nuevas condiciones comerciales que enfrentan El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y…
Date issued:
Dec 2005
El presente informe contiene un resumen de los esfuerzos que el grupo BID ha realizado en el periodo 1990-2005 para mejorar la competitividad del sector PyME. En su carácter de organismo multilateral…
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…