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Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the...
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Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not...
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Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today exhibits a predilection for perpetual self-improvement. In...
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the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …
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This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two …
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Information Communication Technology and Economic Development reveals new insights regarding the complex process of globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to greater productivity in the US while facilitating the...
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The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...
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. Baumol (1968), 'Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LVIII (2), May, 64 …-71 -- Joseph A. Schumpeter (1934), 'The Fundamental Phenomenon of Economic Development', in The Theory of Economic Development: An … (1992), 'Introduction', in Bengt-Åke Lundvall (ed) (ed.), National Systems of Innovation: Towards a Theory of Innovation and …
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trilogy on reformulating the 'flying-geese' theory explains how capitalism has changed industrial structures across the world … hoped - spread to Africa. Terutomo Ozawa's reformulated 'flying-geese' theory explains structural changes as an innovation …
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1. Introduction, themes and structure of the book -- 2. Foundations for growth -- 3. The growth experience -- 4. Structural change -- 5. Monetary, financial and fiscal aspects -- 6. Development indicators and welfare -- 7. Trade, trade policy and growth -- 8. International finance and growth --...
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