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Building Regional Management Training Programs in Latin America

McDermott, Gerald A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

updating management and worker skills in SMEs in Latin America …

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Attaining Progress in Growth and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Japanese Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005

and the prevention of HIV/AIDS, projects to improve health, education, child welfare, and the environment, and projects to …

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Promoting SME's through Enterprise Network

Humphrey, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This presentation discusses the promotion of SMEs through enterprise networks. Some of the benefits of clustering can …

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Social and Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America

Vives, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This technical paper determines the extent to which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) behave responsibly, and propose … measures to enhance and promote corporate social responsibility in SMEs. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has taken on a … Latin America and over 1,300 firms surveyed. As SMEs represent over 95 percent of all firms in Latin America, provide …

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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

key element for companies in a country or region in general, and its small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in … years, structural logistics problems persist, creating obstacles to exports for firms in the region, particularly SMEs. This …. Moreover, on the basis of case studies the region, the paper analyzes what measures can be taken by SMEs to improve their …

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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America: The Microeconometric Evidence

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This presentation provides the comparative results of a project carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank to understand the links between innovation and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special attention is paid to the importance of sectoral and size difference in both...

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Strengthening the SME Sector

Saavedra, José Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

To enhance private sector development and increase the impact of Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy Projects, there is a need for a comprehensive program that will link business climate reforms to cluster development initiatives and to improvements at the firm level. To develop such an...

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Electronic Commerce and Development Implications for IDB Actions

Ca'Zorzi, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

education, health and public administration. IT applications foster efficiency, reduce costs and expand the outreach of these …

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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...

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Public Programs to Promote Firms' Exports in Developing Countries: Are There Heterogeneous Effects by Size Categories?

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Several countries have implemented programs to support their firms¿ internationalization efforts. Their impacts are likely to be heterogeneous over firm size categories because these programs are primarily intended and expected to benefit smaller companies. Whether this is or not the case is...

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