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Lao PDR - Labor Standards and Productivity in the Garments Export Sector : A Survey of Managers and Workers

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This report describes labor practices in the Lao garments export sector as seen by both management and labor. The main objective of this report is to present the differing perspectives on working conditions between managers and workers, and to explore ways in which the Lao garment sector could...

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Dominica - Country Procurement Assessment Report : Volume 2. Data and Analysis

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Promoting enterprise-led innovation in China

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New technologies, new risks? : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism

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Agricultural innovation systems : an investment sourcebook

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

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