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This paper provides a novel taxonomy of firms based on specialization versus diversification in production and markets. Firms may choose to specialize on few production activities or alternatively may build expertise in many activities. There is an accompanying decision when firms sell their...
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-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain … countries requires a type of manufacturing sector development that can deliver high-quality employment, that is aligned with the …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …
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This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has 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...
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, intermediate and proximate causes of growth and development. …
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evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …
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for developing countries in following an MNE-assisted development strategy have changed over the last decade. The growing … share of industrial activity owned and controlled by MNEs does not always result in a proportional increase in development …
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Migration was not an explicit goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), rightly so in this writer's view, but it … what is to follow. Two dimensions are central to such a discussion: first, the nature of the development goals post-2015 … that just might provide a path towards integrating migration into development. …
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This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples drawn from emergent knowledge markets in industrialised...
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MNEs, as there are few differences in their modus operandi. Besides, MNE-assisted development still depends upon the …
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