supply on technological progress, shows that longer-term trends set in motion, from new technology enabled global sourcing …, improve equity. Firms in emerging markets gain more access; labour markets become more inclusive. Global sourcing has the …. Government policy initiatives and firms strategies to boost and utilize these trends are examined. …

Technology development and transfer has been identified as a key element in the Bali Action Plan. In the negotiations … rights (IPRs) do not become a barrier to transfer of climate friendly technology. In this discussion paper, this question of … technology transfer, intellectual property rights is addressed in the context of climate change. Patent statistics shows the …

This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industry level competitiveness for the … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

understand how the various informal institutions (shared mental models) have influenced key dimensions of technology strategy … study, in contrast, focuses exclusively on technology policies by examining the White Papers on Science and Technology … (Kagakugijutsu Hakusho) published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). We then endeavour to …

paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …

paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …

. Since 2003, the local health agency (Bapel) has been quite successful in managing this program. The program that is funded … differences in the type and extent of health services offered by the two of them. The outcome of the findings shows that puskesmas … are the communitys very poor socio-economic conditions, endemic malaria, minimal numbers of health workers in rural areas …

, achieve a socioeconomic and health status similar to that of their nonmigrant counterparts living in the same city. Using … to be absolutely poor than nonmigrants. Their health performance and that of their children are also no different from … the health status of nonmigrants. There is only weak, and not robust, evidence that children of migrants have a higher …