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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009140862

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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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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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India

Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of

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Growth of African economies: Productivity, policy syndromes, and the importance of institutions

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies.the growth project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) suggests that .policy syndromes. have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in

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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia

Ofer, Gur - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even l

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The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship

Sanders, Mark; Weitzel, Utz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493679

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