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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 …
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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. …
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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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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Bad Translation or Double Standards? Productivity and Accountability Across the Private, Public and Voluntary Sectors
Stein, Janice - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency. Building on her analysis in The Cult of Efficiency, she argues that the language of efficiency, understood narrowly as cost-effectiveness, confronts distinctive problems when...
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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?
Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...
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The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century
Henriksen, Ingrid; Lampe, Markus; Sharp, Paul - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2010
We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ownership form in the Danish dairy industry...
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Just Add Milk: A Productivity Analysis of the Revolutionary Changes in Nineteenth Century Danish Dairying
Lampe, Markus; Sharp, Paul - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2014
The late nineteenth century Danish agricultural revolution saw the modernization and growth of the dairy industry. Denmark rapidly caught up with the leading economies, and Danish dairying led the world in terms of productivity. Uniquely in a world perspective, high quality micro-level data...
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Amartya Sen revisited: trade, inequality and growth in central Spain, 1700-1800
Caballero, Carlos Santiago - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2010
This paper studies the effects of trade and inequality in central Spain during the eighteenth century, taking as case study the province of Guadalajara and the surrounding regions. The first part of the paper presents a specific factors model as theoretical framework that will later be applied...
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