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capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to …Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
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Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia’s success, if anything? The study …
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This paper analyses China?s ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses …
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This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest...
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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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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing u
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While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small …
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-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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The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility. The orthodox approach is adept at solving straightforward technical or logistical problems (paving roads, building
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