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This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the … World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector … fiscal incentives for supporting science, technology, and innovation (STI) and provides policy recommendations relevant to …
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Armenia's economy is heavily reliant on domestic demand, which is itself driven by remittances that support local construction and consumption. Armenia will need to shift to an export led strategy if it is to move from middle income to high-income status. Because Armenia is a landlocked country...
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This study is focused on Clean Team, a social enterprise providing container-based sanitation (CBS) services in Kumasi …, the second-largest city in Ghana with a population of 2.7 million in 2018. Clean Team is owned by Water and Sanitation for … the Urban Poor (WSUP), a nonprofit partnership between the private sector, civil society, and academia. Clean Team …
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The Digital Government Readiness Assessment (DGRA) Toolkit is a knowledge product developed as a global public good to help client countries leaders in digital agenda and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector assess their current status, as well as their aspirations in digital...
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The objective of this Technical Note is to provide task teams and task team leaders (TTLs) with tools for designing and …
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The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1 … correlation between levels of innovation and productivity. Malaysia recognizes the need to embrace an innovation-driven growth … policy efforts through reforms and improvements to bolster educational as well as science, technology and innovation …
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China considers innovation be one of the key drivers of its future growth and convergence with more developed countries … technological catch- up, China must revise its approach to innovation policy. This paper takes stock of China's progress in building … recommendations to help China sustain its drive to become one of the global innovation champions …
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This paper interprets case studies, and theory on community involvement in beneficiary selection, and benefit delivery for social safety nets. Several considerations should be carefully balanced in assessing the advantages of using community groups as targeting agents. First, benefits from...
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There is a growing consensus among development practitioners that participatory mechanisms are necessary in securing the success of development projects. Through the lens of social funds this paper looks at the concept of social capital in order to explain why participation is crucial for...
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