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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306216
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Educational scores : how does Russia fare?
Amini, Chiara; Commander, Simon - 2011
Russia in comparative light as well as the factors associated with differences in educational outcomes in Russia. Despite the … looking at within-country variation in Russia. We find both in the cross-country estimates as also those using just Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516950
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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785812
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is concerned, African countries will in differing degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978455
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Mapping "information economy" businesses with big data : findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440545
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Investment grants and firms' productivity : how effective is a grant booster shot?
Alexandre, Fernando; Chaves, Miguel; Portela, Miguel - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression Discontinuity Design strategy using a very rich firm-level administrative database, which allows us to link applications to grants and their scores to firms' performance. Overall,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471197
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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a "Latin American perspective". A realistic and … performance" of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941467
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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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