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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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population density and limited off-farm employment opportunities, enhancing agriculture productivity is key for sustainable … without significant growth in agriculture it will be virtually impossible to address poverty reduction. Given the high … largely determined by total factor productivity (TFP), which in turn is affected by macroeconomic policies and stability, and …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the … regression in productivity in the 1970s, and made some progress during the 1980s and 1990s. The study also highlights the fact …
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price shocks and a decline in productivity; these effects caused sub-optimal performance in the agricultural sector. This …
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massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents … agriculture as well as increases the supply of modern intermediate inputs to agriculture. Agricultural producers accordingly …, output per worker in agriculture is improved. Poor countries with less-developed credit markets are, therefore, far less …
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This study is about the effects reforms have had on industry's dispersion in Russia. We use data on regional production … there significant changes in the relative productivity's of industries in regions? Is there a connection between … productivity changes and changes in localization? …
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The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
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In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that remain local thus not giving prerequisites to transform...
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