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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth across four Latin American … countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys. Specifically, we relate …
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This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
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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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, Melitz and Yeaple, 2004). The idea is that innovation will have two main effects on service firms’ choice between exports and …This paper introduces service innovation in the proximity-concentration trade-off model of trade and FDI (Helpman …, innovators will have to pay a higher relational distance cost for undertaking export activities, and they will therefore prefer …
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The paper investigates the relationship between firms’ international cooperation strategies and export decision. It … factor to foster the firms’ decision to enter the export market. …
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defence firms will progressively become more efficient, less dependent on public procurement and innovation policy support … an increase in the industry’s export propensity and a less concentrated market. …
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Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. The relationship between innovation and exporting has been investigated for many countries. However, there is a … paucity of research in Vietnam with respect to this issue. In this paper we examine whether innovation performed by Vietnam …
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tends to allow firms to export more. But very little is known about the heterogeneous impacts of innovation on exports …A growing number of studies that look at the relationship between innovation and exports find that more innovation … needs to innovate to raise its exports. Using data from Chile, we combine information on innovation activities at the firm …
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Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...
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Major pharmaceutical companies such as Smith Kline Beecham, Merck, Glaxo and Lilly, and a score of smaller ones, are developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for leaving the forests intact. This case study covers...
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