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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856317
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Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus
Coccia M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
-climate sources of fruitful patterns of the technological innovation and economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103320
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Innovation Systems, Institutional Change and the New Knowledge Market: Implications for Third World Agricultural Development
Clark, Norman - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2001
of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856509
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What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?
Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712213
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The political dimension of inequality during economic development
Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2009
European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636359
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Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development
Pineda, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504427
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International Migration and Human Development in Turkey
Içduygu, Ahmet - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in most countries. It is argued that caused by economic hardship or political hardship or political unrest in countries of origin, it would threaten well-being and identity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506990
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Trafficking in Persons and Human Development: Towards A More Integrated Policy Response
Laczko, Frank; Danailova-Trainor, Gergana - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Poverty is often regarded as the "root cause" of trafficking, but the linkages between poverty, lack of development and trafficking are complex. For example, there is some evidence to suggest that victims of cross-border trafficking are more likely to originate from middle-income rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507009