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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…
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Dec 2005
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En 1996, el BID junto a la Corporación Justicia y Democracia de Chile, presidida por el ex presidente Patricio Aylwin, dio inicio al Proyecto Regional Diálogo de Política Social (DPS) o Iniciativa…
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Dec 2005
El presente informe recoge las experiencias del grupo BID durante el período 1990-2004. En su carácter de organismo regional de desarrollo, el grupo BID ha realizado esfuerzos en colaboración con los…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Dec 2005
III Inter American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Proceedings,Santiago Chile.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Dec 2005
Este documento, en el contexto de El Salvador, busca demostrar que el clima de negocios, las relaciones comerciales y la competitividad no están desasociados del desempeño ambiental. Al contrario, un…
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Dec 2005
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This paper develops a model showing that inefficient legal protections disproportionately increase financial restrictions for creditors that have less wealth. Due to fixed monitoring costs in…
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Nov 2005
This presentation aims at analyzing the impact of institutional and systemic effects of clustering and its consequences on upgrading and differentiation and division of labor in the electronics…
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Nov 2005
This presentation summarizes Singapore's economic performance, and examines the evolving industrial strategy, major policies and performances. Singapore has achieved substantial economic and…
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Nov 2005
This presentation discusses Singapore's economic performance and industrial strategy of the past and the future. Their changing industrial strategy and structure includes the promotion of…
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Nov 2005
The following presentation briefly outlines a history of Brazilian industrial policy from 1950-present and current structural issues and challenges in modern-day industrial policy. It was presented…
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Nov 2005
This presentation comments on John Weiss' Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lesson from the East Asian Miracle Experience. The presentation took place at the 2005 LAEBA Second Annual…
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Nov 2005
This presentation comments on Thee Kian Wie "Technology and Indonesia's Industrial Competitiveness." It includes an overview of the paper and an analysis of policy recommendations,…
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Nov 2005
The meaning of clusters has evolved considerably over several decades. This presentation seeks to use a synthesis of the concept from the time of Mill and Marshall (industrial districts), and Smith…
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Nov 2005
This presentation discusses a series of measures and actions to help explain the impact of governance on the behavior of global value chains. The topics include: 1) Supplier-led industrial upgrading…