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Unlocking Central America's Export Potential : Infrastructure for Unlocking Exports - SEZs, Innovation, and Quality Systems
World Bank - 2012
The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and...
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Promoting enterprise-led innovation in China
Zhang, Chunlin (contributor) - 2009
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China : Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Inclusive Growth
World Bank - 2013
poor. In China many efforts are being made in the domain of inclusive innovation, but there is no clear strategy and … operationalization of inclusive innovation policy in China and possibly in other countries. This report is presented in four Chapters and … an Executive Summary. Chapter I presents the concept of inclusive innovation and why it is relevant for China. Chapter II …
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Economic geography : real or hype?
Koo, Jun - 2004
"Economic geography has become a mantra for many economists, geographers, and regional scientists. Previous studies have tested the importance of economic geography for production activities and found a significant association between them. Most of these studies, however, have not taken into...
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Diversity matters : the economic geography of industry location in India
Koo, Jun - 2003
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World Development Report 2009 : Reshaping Economic Geography
World Bank - 2012
Places do well when they promote transformations along the dimensions of economic geography: higher densities as cities grow; shorter distances as workers and businesses migrate closer to density; and fewer divisions as nations lower their economic borders and enter world markets to take...
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Reshaping Economic Geography of East Africa : From Regional to Global Integration (Vol. 1 of 2)
World Bank - 2012
Five East African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have made solid progress on integrating regionally in the East African Community (EAC) since 1999. Such advances are crucial, as integration in East Africa has the potential for higher than usual benefits: Burundi, Rwanda,...
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Russia : Reshaping Economic Geography
World Bank - 2013
The report has three main chapters discussing modernization, diversification and competitiveness. The chapters examine problems and barriers facing households, private firms and public agencies to achieving these objectives, and then identify the instruments that can help Russia achieve the...
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New technologies, new risks? : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism
Zerzan, Andrew - 2009
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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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