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Belize: A Private Sector Assessment: Private Sector Development Discussion Paper #6

Rowland, Ben; Durante, Juan José; Martin, Dougal - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Two basic factors shape private sector development in Belize. First, the population is small - only 322,000 as of mid-2008. This limits the size of the domestic market and potential economies of scale. The economy was only US$1.3 billion in 2009 and diversification is limited. The economy...

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Credit, Labor Informality and Firm Performance in Colombia

Galindo, Arturo José; Caro, Lorena; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper explores the links between labor formality, access to credit and firm performance in Colombia using Annual … informality. The results suggest that a 10 percent increase in the ratio of credit to sectoral output increases labor formality … reports a strong correlation between labor formality and firm performance measured as output and employment growth. A one …

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Real Exchange Rates, Dollarization and Industrial Employment in Latin America

Galindo, Arturo José; Izquierdo, Alejandro; Montero, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This paper uses a panel dataset on industrial employment and trade for 9 Latin American countries for which liability dollarization data at the industrial level is available. It tests whether real exchange rate fluctuations have a significant impact on employment, and analyze whether the impact...

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Financial Dependence, Formal Credit and Informal Jobs: New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data

Catão, Luis; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Rosales, María Fernanda - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper examines a much overlooked link between credit markets and formalization: since access to bank credit typically requires compliance with tax and employment legislation, firms are more likely to incur such formalization costs once bank credit is more widely available at lower cost. The...

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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2012 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la Evaluabilidad de los Proyectos del Banco 2012

Inter-American Development Bank; Office of Evaluation … - 2013

In 2011 OVE began using the DEM and the self-evaluation system as a way to assess the evaluability of the Bank's portfolio by validating the DEMs of a sample of projects. The first exercise was used as pilot to set the standards OVE would use and to inform the Board and Management of the new...

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2011 Evaluability Review of Bank Projects Title: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2012

During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...

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A Decade of Development Thinking

Lora, Eduardo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Panizza, Ugo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Research Department of the IDB (RES) performs innovative, comparative research on the development issues of greatest concern to the region today. It generates a wide variety of products based on this research and disseminates them to three principal audiences: the Bank, policymakers and the...

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Belize: A Private Sector Assessment: Private Sector Development Discussion Paper #6

Rowland, Ben; Durante, Juan José; Martin, Dougal - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

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Country Program Evaluation: Guyana (2008-2012) Title: Evaluación del Programa de País: Guyana (2008-2012)

Fryer, Michelle; Soldano, Miguel; García, Salomón; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

estrategia anterior. La sostenibilidad de la labor del Banco y su pertinencia en Guyana podrían verse afectadas por una nueva …

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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2011 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011

Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...

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