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El presente informe ofrece un análisis exhaustivo de la cartera de proyectos de servicios de desarrollo empresarial financiada por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo entre 1995 y 2002, la que incluye 177 proyectos y una inversión de 2.383 millones de dólares. Con base en técnicas...
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El interés de los gobiernos, del sector financiero y del sector empresarial en América Latina y el Caribe por superar los obstáculos al financiamiento que afectan el dinamismo emprendedor de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipyme) se ha potenciado sustancialmente en los últimos...
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Esta presentación discute datos básicos y fases de liberalización de la economía española, la probabilidad de exportar y tamaño empresarial, y la acción pública en la internacionalización de la empresa y de las PyMEs españolas. Esta fue presentada en la Reunión Subregional de...
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Esta presentación discute datos básicos y fases de liberalización de la economía española, la probabilidad de exportar y tamaño empresarial, y la acción pública en la internacionalización de la empresa y de las PyMEs españolas. Esta fue presentada en la Reunión Subregional de...
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This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...
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This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
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In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...
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This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility of a message depends on the strategic context. Formally, there is an encoding-decoding step where...
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In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by firms during the period 1995-2005. Our econometric results, which look at the impact of export...
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