Using the rich micro data set of the World Bank Investment Climate Survey, this paper examines the determinants of … the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions and economic growth. We …, Johnson and Robinson. We discuss the work of Rodrik and others who focus on institutions and institutional reform and take … new theoretical frameworks by North, Wallis and Weingast and Khan that relate the structure of institutions to short …

improvements and competitiveness in national economies.. But do they contribute to happiness on the country level? In other words …, does the happiness of nations depend on its entrepreneurs? And what about happy nations - are they better places for … entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various …

has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about 19,000 firms in 42 countries, most of which are developing, we …

Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only characteristics of firms but also environment within which firms … developing countries, we estimate a multilevel model of innovation that integrates explanatory factors at different levels of the …

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …

) Strengthening the innovation enabling environment of policies and institutions is critical if research use is to lead to long … 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 …

evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …

of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty. Using examples … focuses attention directly on the types of institutional reforms necessary to improve the effectiveness of Third World …

the impact of three major shocks to the gradually globalizing and integrating world economy and show that these shocks … arguable made the transition to an entrepreneurial economy in which innovation, creativity and high value added in early stage … activity are the basis of competitive advantage, whereas the developing world by-and-large has absorbed mature industrial …