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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975-2005

Grawe, Roger - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World …

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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Information Technology and Economic Development: An Introduction to the Research Issues.

Pohjola, M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1998

Even in industrial countries, the impact of information technology has not been as deep or pervasive as the debate about the benefits of the global information society sometimes makes it appear. The literature review on the US experience shows that there is neither a 'productivity paradox' nor a...

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Globalization, Technology, and Income Inequality: A Critical Analysis.

Singh, A.; Dhumale, R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000

Much of the vast literature on changes in income distribution in advanced countries during the last two decades attributes these either to globalization, or to skill-biased technology, or to a combination of the two. A transatlantic concensus has emerged to suggest that thes two factors have led...

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Information Technology and Economic Growth. A Cross-Country Analysis.

Pohjola, M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000

This paper explores the impacts of informatin technology investment on economic groth in a cross-section of 39 countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical (Solow) growth model.

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development.

Quah, D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1999

Can the increasing signicance of knowledge-products in national income- the growing weightless economy-infuence economic development? Those technologies reduce "distance" between consumers and knowledge production This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows how...

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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?

Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...

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Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data (over the period 1990-2002) from a large group of developing countries and focus in particular on the interplay between policy and...

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A Two-thirds Rate of Success: Polish Transformation and Economic Development, 1989-2008

Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Progress in achieving institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on the development abilities of the relevant country. In Poland, during 20 years of comprehensive systemic shift, GDP increased more than in any other postsocialist country. To judge the...

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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Desai, Sameeksha - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

current understanding of entrepreneurship are discussed with respect to institutions and economic development. …

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