authors find that the stock of human capital, the level of domestic innovation and technological adaptation, and the level of ….15 percentage point. In terms of innovation, the authors find that a 20 percent increase in the annual number of USPTO patents … to increase by 0.11 percentage point. This paper a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World Bank …

"The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data … 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 …

"Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation … developing countries by testing for the impact of measures of the functioning of the national innovation system-the set of …, affect the transformation of research and development into patents. "--World Bank web site …

model. "--World Bank web site …

"The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it …-sensitive to time-insensitive agricultural goods by 6 percent. "--World Bank web site …

inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …

Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to measure trade restrictiveness"--World Bank web site …