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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
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This study examines the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run. High land inequality increases income Gini coefficients in the urban sector as well as the rural sector, not only by creating congestion in the urban subsistence sector, but also by feeding the growth...
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This paper discusses the importance of sound policies for achieving social development and social justice in provision of education, training and health services in Sudan. Different from Sudanese literature, we provide new contributions by explaining the low commitment to the standardized...
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This paper presents the ways due to which public stakeshares, private or civil society must respond to contemporary social problems being forced to seek new ways to solve public problems. In this context, a growing interest in public institutions to achieve partnerships with the private sector,...
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Knowledge, science and information have become powerful driving force that stimulates human and material potential …. Therefore creating a society with an economy based on high performance knowledge and ensuring sustainable human development is … of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and use this knowledge for new applications. According to the …
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knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus …What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
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cause of a crisis is the need for change. A solution for the actual financial crisis can be the knowledge economy. But … knowledge has no resilience. If we fear for the security of the supply chains for food and energy, how much more should we be … nervous about our knowledge? Not only is it floating free of any relationship with the real world, it is also stored on highly …
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The discovery of oil and gas reserves in the 1920s has made Brunei one of the world¡¦s richest countries in terms of GDP per capita. Since then, the country has been using its oil and gas revenues to finance major infrastructure projects throughout the country. Now the Sultanate¡¦s critical...
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Religion as a component of family background may transmit values that positively affect children's educational achievements. Nevertheless, in its conservative dimension religion hampers children's self-determination and may lead them not to invest in higher education. Notably religion may adapt...
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Knowledge externalities are considered by the Intellectual Capital Outlook as generator of long-term wealth. In this … human development capacities of knowledge cities supported by a composite index of intangible factors of human resources. In …
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