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Nuturing Innovation : Venture Acceleration Networks, A Review of Existing Models
World Bank - 2013
This report evaluates the role, operational models and identifies good practices of programs that seek to accelerate innovative entrepreneurship by managing, nurturing and leveraging social and business networks. The report discusses the role of venture acceleration networks, using networks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557404
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China and Central and Eastern European countries : regional networks, global supply chain, or international competitors?
Fung, Kwok Chiu - 2008
"China has emerged as one of the top recipients of foreign direct investment in the world. Meanwhile, the successful transition experience of many Central and Eastern European countries has also allowed them to attract an increasing share of global foreign direct investment. In this paper, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521070
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African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance
Biggs, Tyler - 2006
"This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal institutions by creating private governance systems in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522205
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Japan's changing industrial landscape
Yusuf, Shahid - 2005
"This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive edge will depend on the continuing gains in their manufacturing capability, their capacity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522442
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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
World Bank - 2011
The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247500
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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
World Bank - 2013
The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557925
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Urban risk assessments : an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities
2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393774
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The Indus Basin of Pakistan : the impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture
Yu, Winston H. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393877
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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009
"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394124
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Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns
Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009
"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …
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