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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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, in combination with the expectation of a future switch towards another technology, may actually reduce current investment … in that technology (while temporarily increasing current investment in competing technologies). The latter enables … that technology at the time of the switch. …
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, Brazil and China, with the purpose to understand the role of Governments and technology in the internationalisation …
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, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
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In this paper we examine skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. Different from the … consequences of low skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. We verify our first hypothesis that the …; weak technology indicators and dependence on foreign technologies at the micro level. We confirm our second hypothesis that …
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countries. However we are evidencing that the majority of the CDM projects deploy local sources of technology, which challenges … the North- South technology transfer paradigm established under the sustainable development agenda of the KP. This paper … is an attempt to explain technology sourcing patterns in CDM projects through employment of knowledge base determinants …
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This paper reviews the literature on incubators in developed and developing countries. We show that the concept of incubators has evolved in time according to market and firm needs. Contemporary successful incubators are profit-oriented, provide a wide range of services, focus more on intangible...
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The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the … these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is a strong driver for the internationalization, as firms are searching for … decisions to invest in developed destinations. We found out that technology is an asset used as a competitive resource, and that …
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This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in employment in the Netherlands. We show that changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...
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three industries. Foreign firms enjoyed higher overall technology and HR intensity means than local firms in auto parts and … electronics. Foreign firms enjoyed higher and statistically significant process technology mean than local firms in electronics …. Foreign firms also enjoyed higher means than local firms in process technology and R&D intensities. The econometric results …
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