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Framing the Global Landscape of Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programs

World Bank - 2014

Entrepreneurship is of fundamental importance as a catalyst for innovation, job creation, and economic well …-being. Policymakers have a strong interest in promoting entrepreneurship given that its development is necessary for fighting poverty and … unemployment. This paper is an initial contribution to help fill gap, performing a systematic review of Entrepreneurship Education …

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The international finance corporation's MBA survey : how developing country firms rate local business school training

Chaudhry, Azam - 2003

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Procurement Monitoring and Social Accountability : Curriculum Development Program

World Bank - 2009

The devolution of procurement responsibilities to local levels of government is increasingly occurring across South Asia. This trend is significant because increasingly localized decision-making better enables communities to hold government authorities accountable for the effectiveness of public...

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Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education?

World Bank - 2012

The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in school. One recent project was in Cambodia, where...

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Promoting enterprise-led innovation in China

Zhang, Chunlin (contributor) - 2009

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Fostering technology absorption in Southern African enterprises

Goldberg, Itzhak (contributor); Kuriakose, Smita (contributor) - 2011

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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009

"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed based on industry-specific research and development...

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Global Economic Prospects 2008 : Technology Diffusion in the Developing World

2008

Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. It reveals both encouraging and cautionary trends. On the one hand, the pace of technological...

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Openness and technological innovations in developing countries : evidence from firm-level surveys

Almeida, Rita - 2006

"The authors analyze the role of international technological diffusion for firm-level technological innovations in several developing countries. Their findings show that, after controlling for firm, industry, and country characteristics, exporting and importing activities are important channels...

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Does it matter where you come from? : vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors

Saggi, Kamal - 2004

"Javorcik, Saggi, and Spatareanu use a firm-level panel data set from Romania to examine whether the nationality of foreign investors affects the degree of vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment. Investors' country of origin may matter for spillovers to domestic producers in upstream...

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