This study contributes to the understanding of how obstacles to innovation affect firms of
different size. Until now, the literature on obstacles to innovation has not provided a …

Latin America and the Caribbean is a middle-income region. The typical country in the
region has an income per capita about 25 percent above the typical country in the world, but …

Las políticas industriales a menudo han causado más daño que beneficio. El nuevo marco
conceptual presentado en este libro permite a los países adoptar las políticas de desarrollo …

Celem pracy jest opracowanie modelu podstawowych reguł, determinant oraz efektów
strategicznego podejścia do absorpcji wsparcia w zarządzaniu rozwojem mikro, małych i …

This article evaluates the effect of the Argentinean Support Program for Organizational
Change on employment and wages. The program aimed at increasing small and medium …

El trabajo es un aspecto esencial para el crecimiento de las personas y los países. Alcanzar
una plena realización personal es más difícil sin un empleo, del mismo modo que una …

Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of
billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The …

This paper investigates three cases—Malaysia, Costa Rica, and Morocco—in which host
authorities were successful in using foreign direct investment to change the export profile of …

Prior literature argues that, given the existence of information asymmetries and agency
costs, higher competition may increase financial constraints by reducing banks' incentives to …

This paper studies the use of psychometric tests, designed by the Entrepreneurial Finance
Lab (EFL), as a tool to screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for …