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On the Quantity and Quality of Knowledge : The Impact of Openness and Foreign Research and Development on North-North and North-South Technology Spillovers
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2013
Knowledge accumulation means either new knowledge (an increase in its quality), greater access to existing knowledge (an increase in its quantity), or both. The authors examine the relative contribution of these two components of knowledge to total factor productivity (TFP) for North-North and...
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2012
The authors analyze the role of international technological diffusion for firm-level technological innovations in several developing countries. Their findings show that, after controlling for firm, industry, and country characteristics, exporting and importing activities are important channels...
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Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries : Unilateral and Multilateral Policy Options
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Maskus, Keith E.; Saggi, Kamal - 2013
of thumb as a guide to both national policymakers and rule making in the World Trade Organization, as policies should …
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Product Innovation by Incumbent Firms in Developing Economies : The Roles of Research and Development Expenditures, Trade Policy, and the Investment Climate
Lederman, Daniel - 2012
A model of firm innovation illustrates the effects of the threat of imitation and product varieties on a representative firm's decision to invest in research and development to produce new product varieties. The model motivates two empirical questions: (1) Is research and development partially...
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the Natural Trading Partners Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2013
Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a regional trade agreement is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are "natural trading partners," while other studies claim that the opposite is true. Schiff and Wang look at the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by...
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Patenting and Research and Development : A Global View
Bosch, Mariano; Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. - 2012
Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation measured by the dynamic relationship between research and development and U.S. patents granted. They confirm at the country level the recurrent micro-level finding of a strong...
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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Who Are the Net Food Importing Countries?
Ng, Francis; Aksoy, M. Ataman - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...
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