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Dercon, Stefan; Bold, Tessa; Calvo, César - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

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Enhancing Access to Finance in the Caribbean

Holden, Paul; Howell, Hunt - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

The purpose of this paper, the fourth chapter in a series of discussion papers on private sector development, is to examine issues that are central to financial market development in the Caribbean region. This report identifies factors that are required for financial markets to function...

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Integrated Financial Supervision: Experiences in Selected Countries

Demaestri, Edgardo C.; Sourrouille, Diego - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper represents one of the first comparative analyses of experiences of integrated supervision. It discusses how several countries around the world have developed the processes of integrating financial regulation and supervision, and covers numerous relevant technical issues as well as the...

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Improving Credit Risk Analysis with Psychometrics in Peru

Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim; LaMonte, Joseph - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly …-based credit scoring models could reduce the constraints on MSME finance. The authors created a scorecard based on that information … policies to reduce information asymmetry in MSME lending, such a tool could help relieve constraints on MSME finance in Peru. …

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Macro Impact with Micro Money: 25 Years of Support to Microenterprise Title: Macro impacto con micro dinero: 25 años de apoyo a la microempresa

Sáenz, María Victoria; Luna, Elba N. - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents but a few examples of the many Bank-financed productive activities carried out by the people of the region, and pays tribute to the women and men who, in their efforts to succeed, daily renew their hopes for a better future. In addition, the book pays tribute to the...

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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice

Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...

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Public Development Banks: Toward a New Paradigm?

Rodríguez, César M.; Arancibia, Cristián Palma; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The second publication in the series "Institutions for People" focuses on the public development banks of Latin America and the Caribbean as they enter a new paradigm. In the last 10 to 15 years, these institutions have made considerable progress in the region towards fulfilling their undoubted...

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Inter-Firm Linkages and Finance in Value Chains

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Navas-Alemán, Lizbeth; Kamiya, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The literature on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance highlights linkages with large firms in value chains … implications for SMEs. This paper explores this gap by looking for evidence on the impact of SMEs' access to finance of inter … technologies in Costa Rica), a comparison between the different sources and instruments of finance used by SMEs is presented. A …

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