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Endogenous and Modern Innovations : Differing Perspectives

World Bank - 2012

(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …

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Industrial structure, appropriate technology and economic growth in less developed countries

Lin, Justin Yifu - 2009

"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...

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Export variety and country productivity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the set of goods exported by each sampled country relative to...

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Albania - The New Growth Agenda : A Country Economic Memorandum

World Bank - 2012

describes the human capital needs of the new growth agenda and focuses on education and skills. Chapter three examines the …

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Brazil : The New Growth Agenda, Volume 1. Policy Briefing

World Bank - 2013

During the last century, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Between 1901 and 2000, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent. Brazil's long-run growth has rivaled that of counties such as South Korea, universally...

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More and better jobs in South Asia

2011

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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction

Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008

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Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income commonwealth of independent states countries

Verme, Paolo - 2006

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless …

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Ghana - Job Creation and Skills Development : Main Report

World Bank - 2012

supply, and low labor absorption rate of the economy; and (ii) the external efficiency of the education training system and … evaluating employment programs' outcomes; reviewing the role of labor market regulations in job creation; and reforming technical … vocational education and training (TVET) systems. The key objective of Ghana's development policy is to accelerate economic …

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Republic of the Philippines Labor Market Review : Employment and Poverty

World Bank - 2016

of in-work poverty - low education of the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is …, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

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