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Innovations and Economic Growth in a Fast Changing Global Economy: Comparative Experience of Asian Countries
Singh, Lakhwinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
in the national innovation system is the fundamental determinant of long-run economic growth and development. This is … of the innovation system. Since the national economies are growing in the interdependent world, therefore national … innovation system is continuously being influenced by the changes occurring in other parts of the world. Transformation of East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616771
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When formal institutions fail in fostering economic growth: the case of post-communist countries
Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article explains the peculiarities of institutional effects on growth rates in post-communist countries. By proposing a certain dependence of the institution-growth nexus on the nature of institutional emergence, the distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary processes of institution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258823
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Heterogeneity in Institutional Effects on Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article explains the peculiarities of institutional effects on growth rates in post-communist countries. By proposing a certain dependence of the institution-growth nexus on the nature of institutional emergence, the distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary processes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207845
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Employment effects of offshoring. An application to Japanese industries, 1980-2005
Pablo, Agnese - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087519
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The Dynamic Effects of Subsidizing the Tourism Sector
Schubert, Stefan Franz; Brida, Juan Gabriel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper studies the short run and long run effects of a production subsidy to the tourism sector of a small open economy, which can also be thought as a region within a country. We introduce a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model where the tourism sector is considered to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037720
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Rebuilding the Philippine economy
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This articple presents a historical macroeconomic perspective to present a brief analysis on why the Philippines is performing the way it does today.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111014
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The evolution of Norway’s national innovation system
Fagerberg, Jan; Mowery, David C; Verspagen, Bart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small … focuses on a particular type of innovation, innovation in resource-based activities, that differs in many respects from the … more commonly studied case of innovation in ‘high-tech’ industries. Third, the paper advances our understanding of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560062
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National Innovation Systems in Angola and Mozambique
Manuel, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This work has as objective to approach the theme “National Innovation Systems in Angola and Mozambique”. We concluded … knowledge about others cultures that can help on promotion of innovation, and these government should to promote the enlarging … of investigators in R&D for also promotion of innovation on divers areas such health, education, etc. And both government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789689
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The conditions for functional mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services
Swallow, Brent; Leimona, Beria; Yatich, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694161
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The Institution of Douglass North
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
North, with many other Samuelsonian economists, thinks of “institutions” as budget constraints in a maximization problem. But as Clifford Geertz put it, an institution such as a toll for safe passage is “rather more than a mere payment,” that is, a mere monetary constraint. “It was...
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