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"The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large...
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Emerging and developing countries have grown faster than advanced countries since the 2000s. This shifting weight of global economic activity from 'the West'to 'East and South'is referred to as 'shifting wealth'. But in recent years, a number of factors, such as lower commodity prices, seem to...
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the empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier-innovation as reflected by the …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …
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not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …
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developing countries. Section two examines examples of innovation in the private insurance and capital markets that may have … considers how innovation is taking seed in creative disaster micro insurance programs in low- and middle-income countries …
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Tunisia must move from a low value-added and low cost economy to a higher value-added, knowledge intensive economy in … integration, innovation policies and enabling environment reforms (macro stability, economic regulation and governance, financial … unemployment; chapter three examines the strengths and weaknesses of Tunisia's innovation system and strategies and proposes reform …
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formal mechanisms; approaches to agricultural risk in developed countries; innovation in managing production risk - index …
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