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This paper uses firm-level data from 119 developing countries to show that services sector productivity is positively … associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
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priorities and identify the most relevant variables in every process leading to the highest efficiency in reaching a sustainable …
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The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD firm and industry data, with a view to establish where the balance of … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …
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This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...
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Given the magnitude of services growth and its inter-linkages with other sectors of the economy, it is important to … understand the impact of services sector on other macro-economic variables. The present paper attempts to identify some of the … critical issues in India’s services-led growth and tests certain hypotheses that are currently in debate. These relate to: (a …
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change of mining to agricultural and livestock production farm, which allowed the emergence of a fledgling industry in a city … historical type, where quantitative aspects involved. It highlighted a growth in services in the real estate subsector with … slight decline in the manufacturing industry. A decrease in employment in the industrial sector from the year 2006 against an …
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Abstract This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward...
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is specifically innovation path of economic development which would be emphasized as the main underlying route for … countries) innovation driven development. …
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In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...
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Abstract Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has...
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