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Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up

Lim, Youngil - The MIT Press

of the National Research and Development Program within the framework of the National System of Innovation? Because they …

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Japan's Technological Challenge to the West, 1950-1974: Motivation and Accomplishment

Ozawa, Terutomo - The MIT Press

environment in and outside of Japan. It identifies the Schumpeterian characteristics of economic development and the particular … policy of importing technology for the development of key industries, government controls on imports and on foreign … development of indigenous technologies and their export to the rest of the world. Two final chapters probe the social and …

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Technology Choice in Developing Countries: The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries

Amsalem, Michel A. - The MIT Press

A developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry is critical: alternative technological strategies that involve varying mixes of capital, labor, and social costs could have significantly different impacts not only on the...

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Readings in Development Economics, Volume II: Empirical Microeconomics

Bardhan, Pranab; Udry, Christopher - The MIT Press

sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier …

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India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1990s and Beyond

Basu, Kaushik (contributor) - The MIT Press

India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information technology sector. Yet many in...

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A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy

Bhagwati, Jagdish - The MIT Press

of illegal immigrants, refutes the conventional view that democracy hinders development, and much more. …

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Institutions, Development, and Economic Growth

Eicher, Theo S. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed … by which institutions affect development. This CESifo volume provides a systematic overview of the current scholarship on … different institutional arrangements are appropriate at different stages of economic development); liberalized credit markets …

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Trade, Tariffs, and Growth

Bhagwati, Jagdish - The MIT Press

of optimal policy intervention under domestic distortions. Four important essays on growth and development round out the …

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Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies

Amsden, Alice H.; Chu, Wan-wen - The MIT Press

In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high-tech industries and services. The profits that true...

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Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion

Cull, Robert (contributor) - The MIT Press

About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile...

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