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The metal-working and aluminium industries are widely known as basic industries since their supply feed into a number of of other economic activities producing final goods. Additionally, these industries are classified as heavy industries since they require a substantial capital investment per...
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Current theories of the State would benefit from a new look at the economic role of the State in the work of the great economists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Schumpeter’s central theme of technological innovation for long-term economic growth makes his work particularly interesting to...
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Spanish Abstract: El presente artículo analiza la estructura interna del Proyecto "Experiencias en Innovación Social" que realizó la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, CEPAL, entre los años 2005 y 2011, en conjunto con la Fundación Kellogg. El proyecto tuvo como...
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The objective of this report is to analyze whether development banks in Germany, Spain and Brazil have made a strategic counter during the current crisis. The development banks (necessarily consistent with public policy) are a tool that can address the countercyclical strategy that could drive...
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The study focuses on the analysis of economic growth of the Latin American countries, during the period 1950-2000 The methodology of the paper is based on the use of spatial econometric thechniques applied to a cross section and panel data. The results showed conditional convergence for the...
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Los programas de microfinanzas, a la vez que estrategia para reducir la pobreza, pueden tener efecto en el desempeño escolar de los hijos de sus clientes. Este trabajo utiliza datos de tres encuestas realizadas a hogares clientes de organizaciones microfinancieras en Bolivia, para examinar...
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El programa de transferencias condicionadas en Colombia, Familias en Acción, inició en el año 2009 un plan de bancarización de sus beneficiarios. El propósito central consiste en abrir cuentas de ahorro de bajo monto para cada uno de los beneficiarios del programa, que no sólo permiten el...
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Spanish Abstract: La expansión del Internet ha facilitado el acceso y uso de servicios financieros. Sin embargo, no es claro si estos beneficios se manifiestan en los municipios rurales de Colombia, que históricamente han tenido una menor cobertura bancaria y de Internet. Utilizando datos del...
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