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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Lessons from India

Ghani, Ejaz; o'Connell, Stephen D.; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2014) 132, pp. 1-4

Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. These are commendable goals given that city populations in developing countries are expected...

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Highways and Spatial Development

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2013) 131, pp. 1-6

This Economic Premise examines the link between highways and spatial development. The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project in India—5,846 km of highways linking four major urban hubs—improved the connectivity and market accessibility of districts close to the highway compared to those...

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Financing innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

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Corruption, government subsidies, and innovation : evidence from China

Fang, Lily Hua; Lerner, Joshua; Wu, Chaopeng; Zhang, Qi - 2018

Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014

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