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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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The State of the Global Education Crisis : A Path to Recovery

UNESCO; UNICEF; World Bank - 2021

-19 has deepened the education crisis and charts a course for creating more resilient education systems for the future … emerge from the crisis with increased education quality, resilience, and equity in the longer term …

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Gender at Work : A Companion to the World Development Report on Jobs

World Bank - 2014

Today, many more girls are going to school and living longer, healthier lives than 30 or even 10 years ago. That was the good news in our flagship 2012 World Development Report on gender. But this has not translated into broader gains. Too many women still lack basic freedoms and opportunities...

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New technologies, new risks? : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism

Zerzan, Andrew - 2009

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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

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Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000

Lederman, Daniel - 2005

include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and … of innovation outputs and inputs by looking at the over-time behavior of the relevant series and comparing the …

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