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Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Do Canto, Odilon Antônio Marcuzzo

The paper discuses the Brazilian scientific and technological framework, which has allowed the country to achieve outstanding advances in several fronts when compared to other developing countries.…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Do Canto, Odilon Antônio Marcuzzo

The presentation discuses incentives used to support innovation in the private sector in Brazil. It focuses on the incentives for supporting firms' innovative activities, which include a wide…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Sheehan, Jerry

El presente artículo brinda un breve panorama general de los instrumentos de política para apoyar la innovación empresarial, con el fin de identificar las ventajas y desventajas que implican el…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This Country Program Evaluation (RE-327) covers the period from 2001 to 2006. Given the particularities of Haiti and of the IDB's program in the country between 2001-2006, which are analyzed…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La presente evaluación (RE-327) abarca el periodo de 2001 a 2006. Dadas las particularidades de Haití y del programa del BID con el país entre 2001 y 2006, aspectos que se analizan a fondo en el…

Date issued: Apr 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Valenzuela, Patricio

This study explores the determinants of corporate bond spreads in emerging market economies. Using a largely unexploited dataset, the paper finds that corporate bond spreads are determined by firm-…

Date issued: Apr 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mendoza, Eduardo;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

Economic and political integration have been a perennial and neuralgic issue in the Caribbean agenda. This paper draws on the literature on trade, growth and regional agreements to discuss the…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Ramos, Eva;Villanueva, María Teresa;Peinado-Vara, Estrella

El alivio de la pobreza sigue siendo uno de los mayores problemas a los que se enfrentan los países de América Latina y el Caribe. El crecimiento y la mayor estabilidad macroeconómica de la última…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Cardona, Omar D.

Los desastres naturales han repercutido en las perspectivas de desarrollo de muchos de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Nicaragua está al frente de esta infortunada realidad, estando…

Date issued: Apr 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The period reviewed by the current Country Program Evaluation (RE-328) covers from 2001 to 2006. It spans the Bank's latest programming cycle, which includes the end of the Carlos Flores…