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-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain …) how to deal with jobless growth in manufacturing, (vii) creating adequate systems of financial intermediation, and (viii … countries requires a type of manufacturing sector development that can deliver high-quality employment, that is aligned with the …
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, intermediate and proximate causes of growth and development. …This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions and economic growth. We … review the contributions to the study of institutional determinants of long-run growth by Engerman and Sokoloff, and Acemoglu …
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orientation to sustainable development and policy-driven research, coordinated-regulatory inspirations and research-driven system …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given … the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the … intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that relationship between entrepreneurship …
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detect favourable areas that spur higher technological change and, as a consequence, human development. The main finding is …-climate sources of fruitful patterns of the technological innovation and economic growth. …
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This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on...
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The nature of the catching-up process has changed substantially at both the global and local levels over the last decade. The catching up process can no longer be disentangled from the rapid internationalization of science and technology and the globalization of innovation, in which the...
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This paper uses two representative household budget surveys from the Kyrgyz Republic to analyze factors influencing participation and returns from different types of nonfarm activities in 2005 and 2006. Nonfarm activities are found to be most important for the poor, who are pushed out of...
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or … evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …
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