men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between …This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in … this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan …

entrepreneurship in the informal economy, except to advocate that multinationals, local firms, state and public agencies should work …

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 agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …

agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …

improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider …Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …

This paper examines the gender gap in education and investigates the related implications on the labour market and … returns to education in Sudan. Our results confirm two stylized facts: first, the incidence of significant gender gap in … education in Sudan and second, the incidence of gender inequalities and gap in skill level, share of women in economic …

characteristics of poor Arab regional systems of innovation is apparent from both the poor subsystems of education, S&T and R&D and …This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of systems of innovation … used in the literature to discuss the systems of innovation in the Arab region. We explain that the two common …

that the number of agents enrolled in higher education is a determinant of growth. Moreover, when a country is sufficiently …, while higher education presents the opposite shape. These findings support the main assertion of Aghion and Cohen (2004 …) that countries which are near the technology frontier have to invest in higher education while those far away from the …