Impact Evaluation Of Small And Medium Enterprise Programs In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Gladys Lopez Acevedo,Hong Tan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821387764

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Impact Evaluation of Small and Medium Enterprise Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean by Gladys Lopez Acevedo,Hong Tan Pdf

Small and medium enterprise (SME) support programs are a common feature of industrial policy in developing countries, but one whose effectiveness is not well known. Governments are motivated to support SMEs both because they make up the majority of industrial enterprises and contribute substantially to GDP, employment and earnings, and because SMEs are thought to be weaker than their larger counterparts. Few governments, however, have evaluated their SME programs rigorously so there is little empirical basis for rational allocation of resources to the well performing programs. The paucity of empirical evidence from rigorous impact evaluations also presents problems for multi-lateral and bilateral donors in deciding whether or not to provide lending or aid for such policy interventions to promote SME development. This study rigorously evaluate SME programs in four Latin American countries to gain insights into which programs perform better than others, and just as important, why. These countries Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru cover a wide range of enterprise support programs, including training, innovation and technology upgrading, quality control, market development, export promotion and network formation. Broadly comparable panel data on enterprises is used to investigate the net impacts of these SME interventions.

Author : Franco Boneu,David Alfaro Serrano,Alessandro Maffioli,Carlo Pietrobelli,Gabriel Casaburi,Victoria Castillo,Lucas Figal Garone,Elisa Giuliani,David Giuliodori,Andrés Matta,Lucía Pittaluga,Alejandro Rodríguez
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597822541

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The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs by Franco Boneu,David Alfaro Serrano,Alessandro Maffioli,Carlo Pietrobelli,Gabriel Casaburi,Victoria Castillo,Lucas Figal Garone,Elisa Giuliani,David Giuliodori,Andrés Matta,Lucía Pittaluga,Alejandro Rodríguez Pdf

Do cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design future programs and provide accountability for public resources. The chapters argue that enterprise clusters and the programs to support them are diverse and multidimensional processes that require a variety of instruments to be fully understood and assessed. The book as a whole gathers various methodological essays and quantitative tests of complementary tools and approaches, emphasizing their usefulness and effectiveness in coordination with one another. Most importantly, it asserts that policy evaluation is crucial, in particular when it comes to cluster development programs, to ensure the best use of public resources, the accountability of beneficiaries, and most of all to feed the necessary learning to improve the design and implementation of public policies for enterprise development.

Author : Hong Tan,Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Employees
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Evaluating Training Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises by Hong Tan,Gladys Lopez Acevedo Pdf

"While there have been numerous impact evaluations of unemployed individuals participating in retraining programs or in programs to foster self-employment, impact evaluations of enterprises benefiting from training programs for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are rare. The authors reevaluate the impact of the largest SME program in Mexico, the Comprehensive Quality and Modernization Program (CIMO). They show that compared to the control group, CIMO firms increased investments in worker training, had higher rates of capacity utilization, and were more likely to adopt quality practices. The evidence also suggests that these improved intermediate outcomes were associated with increased productivity growth among CIMO participants, impacts that were especially strong throughout the 1991-93 period. However, the productivity impacts of CIMO are not apparent in the 1993-95 period. "--World Bank web site.

Author : Rita Almeida,Jere Behrman,David Robalino
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821387153

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The Right Skills for the Job? by Rita Almeida,Jere Behrman,David Robalino Pdf

This book revisits skills development policies and points to new directions for making training programs more effective and responsive in increasingly competitive labor market.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464803772

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The Big Business of Small Enterprises by World Bank Pdf

The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions. Targeting means focusing benefits on one size-class of firms to the exclusion of others. Targeted support for SMEs is a big business for the World Bank Group, averaging around $3 billion a year in commitments, expenditures, and gross exposure over the 2006-12 period. In the context of broader reforms, such targeted support can be a powerful tool. Targeting SMEs is not an end in itself, but a means to create economies that can employ more people and create more opportunity for citizens to achieve prosperity. A thriving and growing SME sector is associated with rapidly growing economies. A central challenge is to level the economic playing field by ensuring dynamic markets; strengthening market-support institutions; and removing constraints to participation. IEG found that financial sector development can have both a pro-growth and pro-poor impact by alleviating SMEs' financing constraints, enabling new entry of firms and entrepreneurs and better resource allocation. Layered on top of this are targeted forms of assistance; these interventions may build on a foundation of more systemic reforms, may come in tandem with them, or may in fact be a means to build systemic reforms from the bottom up. Any credible justification of targeted support to SMEs must be focused on establishing well-functioning markets and institutions, not simply providing a temporary supply of benefits to a small group of firms during a project's lifespan. Thus, targeted interventions need to leverage resources to produce broader benefits for institutions and markets. To make targeted support for SMEs more effective, the World Bank Group needs to do several things: Clarify its approach to targeted support to SMEs; Enhance the support's relevance and additionality; Institute a tailored research agenda; Strengthen guidance and quality control for such support; Reform MIGA s Small Investment Program.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264894808

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SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2022 Assessing the Implementation of the Small Business Act for Europe by OECD Pdf

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential drivers of sustainable economic growth in the Western Balkans and Turkey, where they make up 99% of all firms, generate 65% value added and account for 75% of employment. Nevertheless, SMEs across the region continue to face obstacles such as difficulties accessing financing, low levels of digital uptake, regulatory barriers and relatively low participation in international trade.

Author : César Patricio Bouillon,Luis Tejerina,Inter-American Development Bank. Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-29
Category : Human services
ISBN : OCLC:244642260

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Do We Know What Works? by César Patricio Bouillon,Luis Tejerina,Inter-American Development Bank. Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit Pdf

Author : OECD,Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264180734

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Latin American Economic Outlook 2013 SME Policies for Structural Change by OECD,Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Pdf

This edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook finds that the region has weathered the recent turbulence in the global economy with reletive strength. This edition focuses on the role of Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264187030

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OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship Mexico: Key Issues and Policies by OECD Pdf

This publication takes stock of this progress and assesses the opportunities for further strengthening of the Mexican economy through SMEs and entrepreneurship.

Author : Zoltan J. Acs,Paulo Correa
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1502559218

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Identifying the Obstacles to High-Impact Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean by Zoltan J. Acs,Paulo Correa Pdf

High-impact companies are a very important source of economic and job growth. Identifying the drivers and barriers behind their development is key to developing a sound supporting policy framework. The Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI) can interpret and measure entrepreneurial capacity as a systemic phenomenon. For that reason it provides a powerful means of assessing regional entrepreneurial performance. This paper begins by analyzing GEDI results in order to draw a picture of how well entrepreneurship systems perform in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The lessons drawn from this analysis are deepened through the qualitative analysis of nine case studies on the creation and development of successful high-impact companies in the region.

Author : Laura B. Rawlings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290704145

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Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs by Laura B. Rawlings Pdf

Unlike most development initiatives, conditional cash transfer programs recently introduced in the Latin America and the Caribbean region have been subject to rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness. These programs provide money to poor families, conditional on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital - such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis. Rawlings and Rubio review the experience in evaluating the impact of these programs, exploring the application of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation methods and summarizing results from programs launched in Brazil, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Evaluation results from the first generation of programs in Brazil, Mexico, and Nicaragua show that conditional cash transfer programs are effective in promoting human capital accumulation among poor households. There is clear evidence of success in increasing enrollment rates, improving preventive health care, and raising household consumption. Despite this promising evidence, many questions remain unanswered about the impact of conditional cash transfer programs, including those concerning their effectiveness under different country conditions and the sustainability of the welfare impacts.This paper - a product of the Human Development Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to assess the effectiveness of social protection programs.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : UCBK:C077559080

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World Bank Research Program by World Bank Pdf

Author : Deryck R. Brown,Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean in Al Planning - Ilpes
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435065109316

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Policy and Programme Evaluation in the English-speaking Caribbean by Deryck R. Brown,Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning Pdf

Author : Inter-American Development Bank,Matteo Grazzi,Carlo Pietrobelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349581511

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Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean by Inter-American Development Bank,Matteo Grazzi,Carlo Pietrobelli Pdf

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this collection challenges regional policymakers to look beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and create balanced policy mixes tailored to distinct firm needs. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.

Author : Hong Tan,Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931675147

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Evaluating Training Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises by Hong Tan,Gladys Lopez Acevedo Pdf

While there have been numerous impact evaluations of unemployed individuals participating in retraining programs or in programs to foster self-employment, impact evaluations of enterprises benefiting from training programs for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are rare. The authors reevaluate the impact of the largest SME program in Mexico, the Comprehensive Quality and Modernization Program (CIMO). They show that compared to the control group, CIMO firms increased investments in worker training, had higher rates of capacity utilization, and were more likely to adopt quality practices. The evidence also suggests that these improved intermediate outcomes were associated with increased productivity growth among CIMO participants, impacts that were especially strong throughout the 1991-93 period. However, the productivity impacts of CIMO are not apparent in the 1993-95 period.