industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …

general Stochastic Dominance (SD) criteria, focusing on the recent theoretical advances in analyzing portfolio diversification …

other countries, hedge their consumption basket against ex-change rate risk, realize diversification effects and take …

the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture as well as the manner in which different agro …-ecological determinants affect such diversification. The probability of participating in non-agricultural activities was estimated in an …-climactic variables were found to determine the nature of diversification. Against the backdrop of the recent deagrarianisation thesis …

The industrial diversification of cities is explained without imposing linkages among industries. In each of two city … diversification. …

, favoring an agency explanation for unrelated diversification. In the 1960s, however, conglomerates were not valued at a … discount. Evidence from acquisition histories suggests that conglomerate diversification may have added value by creating …

.g. tourism, mining, timber processing, etc). The promotion of diversification of activities may be an important component of … becoming increasingly significant for food security, poverty alleviation and farm sector competitiveness and productivity. . In …