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Exporting and productivity: The role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Thi Tue Anh, Nguyen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing u

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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri

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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975-2005

Grawe, Roger - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World …

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Trade Reforms, Competition, and Innovation in the Philippines

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2012

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

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Results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities (SIA)

Aldaba, Rafaelita M.; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Quimba, … - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2011

In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation … goods and services, production process, marketing, or organizational methods in a firm. Innovation data gathered in the … survey help better understand innovation and its relation to economic growth, and provide indicators for benchmarking …

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naudï¿½ - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Learning from Asia’s Success Beyond Simplistic ‘Lesson-Making’

Hobday, Mike - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian ‘lesson-making’ is a grave mistake in...

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A Century of Rice Innovations

Halos, Saturnina C. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2005

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies the technological change that may have affected rice...

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Innovations in Microfinance in Southeast Asia

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Fukui, Ryu - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2003

ensuring the proper functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the … likelihood of its under-or-slow production by the private sector. MFIs have a clear advantage in process and product innovation …

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Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress

Kornai, János - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

virtues is the strong incentive it gives to dynamism, enterprise and the innovation process. Every revolutionary new product …

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