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Economic policy and manufacturing performance in developing countries
Tribe, Michael A. (contributor);  … - 2001
This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850989
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The dynamics of Asian manufacturing : a comparative perspective in the late twentieth century
Timmer, Marcel - 2000
comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473898
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International handbook on industrial policy
Bianchi, Patrizio (contributor);  … - 2006
This timely and much-needed Handbook reconsiders an old topic from a fresh perspective, raising a number of new, interesting and worthwhile issues in the wake of ten years of globalization. This comprehensive analysis illustrates that old-style industrial policies whereby the government directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851440
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The public financing of pharmaceuticals : an economic approach
Puig-Junoy, Jaume (contributor) - 2005
This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851613
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Local enterprises in the global economy : issues of governance and upgrading
Schmitz, Hubert (contributor) - 2004
This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851407
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Economics of research and development
Hall, Bronwyn H. (contributor) - 2016
Development to Productivity Growth', Bell Journal of Economics, 10 (1), Spring, 92-116 -- Zvi Griliches (1994), 'Productivity, R … Mairesse (1998), 'Research, Innovation and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level', Economics of Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419896
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Evaluation and performance measurement of research and development : techniques and perspectives for multi-level analysis
Chiesa, Vittorio - 2009
This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851892
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Productivity in Asia : economic growth and competitiveness
Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau (contributor);  … - 2007
1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420031
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The growth process in East Asian manufacturing industries : a re-examination
Sun, Chia-Hung - 2004
factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474036
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From industrial districts to local development : an itinerary of research
Becattini, Giacomo - 2003
From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474174