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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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MNEs, as there are few differences in their modus operandi. Besides, MNE-assisted development still depends upon the …
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Using the rich micro data set of the World Bank Investment Climate Survey, this paper examines the determinants of productivity among manufacturing firms in the context of a least developed country, Tanzania. In particular it seeks to evaluate the importance of technological variables - such as...
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evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given … the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the … intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that relationship between entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …
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Innovation is fundamental for economic catching-up and raising living standards. Evidence demonstrate a virtuous circle in which RD spending, innovation, productivity, and per capita income mutually reinforce each other and lead to long-term, sustained growth rates and may foster job creation....
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National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about...
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al. (1998), employment growth is related to process...
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clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the …
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