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The review examines how higher education institutions are supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in their surrounding communities. The study focuses on eleven universities located in six countries in Latin America: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The study finds that...
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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...
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This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age,...
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Age structure and its dynamics are critical in understanding the impact of population growth on a country's growth prospects. Using state-level data from India, we show that the pace of demographic transition varies across states, and that these differences are likely to be exacerbated over the...
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Age structure and its dynamics are critical in understanding the impact of population growth on a country's growth prospects. Using state-level data from India, we show that the pace of demographic transition varies across states, and that these differences are likely to be exacerbated over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743370
This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
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the evolving situations in China and the United States. The most significant effects on governance are the needs to shift … China and the United States facilitate and/or hinder efforts to effectively manage ecosystem services?; and (ii) are there … adjustments that are both politically feasible and likely to make a difference in these terms? We conclude that while China and …
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The time has come (is arguably long overdue) to develop a new basis for the World Bank's work in China. For nearly two … decades, the Bank and China have been engaged in a mutual game of ‘let's pretend’, because the annual increments to China …'s foreign exchange reserves have been larger than the Bank's annual loans to China since about 1994. Now China's national income …
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This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742030
The time has come (is arguably long overdue) to develop a new basis for the World Bank's work in China. For nearly two … decades, the Bank and China have been engaged in a mutual game of ‘let's pretend’, because the annual increments to China …'s foreign exchange reserves have been larger than the Bank's annual loans to China since about 1994. Now China's national income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742036