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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 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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One Planet to Share: Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate
eSocialSciences; United Nations Development Programme UNDP - 2012
In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945212
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Discount Rate for Health Benefits and the Value of Life in India
Shanmugam, K. R. - eSocialSciences - 2011
This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk trade-offs in which workers decide whether to accept a risky job with higher wages. The estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318506
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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319343
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Banking Renaissance: Inclusion, Innovation and Implementation
Mundra, S.S. - eSocialSciences - 2014
Innovative measures needed in our banking sector which would render it more inclusive, vibrant, productive, efficient and above all, customer-centric. [ seventh Annual Banking Conference “Bank on it , 2014†organized by the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai].
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Policy Gaps for Promoting Green Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in Developing Countries: Learning from Indian Experience
Gupta, Anil. K - eSocialSciences - 2013
sustainable innovation Eco-system have been identified. The concept of National Innovation System [NIS], which ignored the … for changing the mindset and creating a new set of institutional conditions to promote creativity and innovation at …
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China's Pharmaceutical Industry: Typologies and Characteristics
Zhang, Hayan - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper uses aggregate and firm level data to examine the characteristics of the Chinese pharmaceutical industry in general and its geographical agglomeration in particular. It addresses the following research questions: 1) Are there geographical agglomerations in China’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341674
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Decrypting E-Governance: Narratives, Power play and Participation in the Gyandoot Intranet
Sreekumar, T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
essentially administrative innovation facilitated by ICTs and recognition of e-governance as social process which involves not … forces shaping the trajectory of the evolution of this technocratic innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341741
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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
to innovation and growth. Finally, an outline of the role of monetary policy in sustaining growth and innovations by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341753
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The Digital Society: New Ways to More Transparency, Participation and Innovation
Dapp, Thomas F - eSocialSciences - 2011
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