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"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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"The authors employ propensity score matching and a traditional control function approach to examine the impact of participation in various societal institutions on microfirm performance in Mexico. They find that firms that participate in credit markets, receive training, pay taxes, and belong...
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"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate substantially exceeded China's population growth, which averaged 1.4 percent … annually between 1978 and 2009, and real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually during this period. China … larger administrative units called cities (shi) and respectively towns (zhen). Cities and towns in China are expansive …
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