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Entrepreneurship Development and the Role of Economic Transition in Entrepreneurial Activities in China
Zhang, Ying; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
This study aims to elaborate entrepreneurship development in China and the role of China's economic transition in … entrepreneurial activities. Besides addressing China's institutional transition environment, which is argued as the necessary … condition of entrepreneurship development and as the 'incubator' of three generations of entrepreneurs in China, the applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712174
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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712007
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Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: crowding out or crowding in?
Farla, Kristine; de Crombrugghe, Denis; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Studies of the relationship between FDI and domestic investment levels reach contradictory findings. We revisit this empirical relationship and argue that some of the conflicting evidence may be explained by the use of poor proxies for the true underlying variables and by questionable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712201
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FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international … China as well as accumulated experience in Thailand. Furthermore, a technology index composed of technical functions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712056
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Explaining Success and Failure in Development
Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Since 1950, there has been considerable diversity in developing country experiences. Some countries and some regions have experienced rapid growth and catch up, others have fallen behind. At a global level there is an increasing inequality of per capita incomes. However, within the framework of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856304
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Assessment of science and technology indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's definition of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators (OECD, 1997) to discuss S&T development in Sudan. We find that the low level and the insufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856472
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Assessment of the impacts of oil: Opportunities and challenges for economic development in Sudan
Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper provides an assessment of the impacts of oil and discusses the opportunities and challenges for enhancing economic development in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this paper is that we provide a more comprehensive analysis using the most recent secondary data to discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712143
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Industrial policy for growth
Farla, Kristine - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
This study distinguishes between industrial policy that stimulates incumbent industry development, `pro-business policy', and industrial policy that promotes the development of free markets, `pro-market policy'. We find that there is a positive relation between the level of countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712281
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Malthus' Revenge
Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
In this paper, we take inspiration from Thomas Malthus' hypothesis that food shortage and hunger would remain "nature's last most dreadful resource" and that "the power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712304
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Cross-border Investment and Economic Integration: The Case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR
Sharif, Naubahar; Huang, Can - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
firms in a FDI-recipient region—Guangdong Province, China—and analyzes the policy implications of the comparison for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712109