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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...
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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency? : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994-2001
Vodopivec, Milan - 2004
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Developing Forest-Smart Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Standards
World Bank - 2021
Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming. Forest loss disrupts ecosystem services, depletes biodiversity, and ultimately undermines the fulfillment of basic human rights. The mining sector is the fourth largest driver of deforestation after agriculture,...
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2023 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
World Bank - 2024
The 2023 state of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector focuses on the intersection of ASM and sustainable development goal 5 (SDG 5) - achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. It applies the SDG 5 framework for the first time to systematically report on gender...
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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 …-based, business networks. There are important links between these informal governance institutions and SME performance. Networks raise …
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Financing energy efficiency : lessons from Brazil, China, India, and beyond
Taylor, Robert Prescott (contributor) - 2008
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Is skill-biased technological change here yet? : evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990
Berman, Eli - 2005
"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low … income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of … skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and …
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Toward a microeconomics of growth
Burgess, Robin - 2004
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The twin effects of globalization
Daveri, Francesco - 2003
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India : Investment Climate and Manufacturing Industry
World Bank - 2013
infrastructure. The report asseses India's investment climate from the perspective of industrial growth and focuses on investment … climate variations within India, analyzing the implications these variations have on industrial performance, as well as …
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