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Local government, taxes, and guns : successful policy innovation in three Colombian cities

Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco; Gutiérrez Haces, María … - 2011

This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation...

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Learning from Asia's success beyond simplistic 'lesson-making'

Hobday, Michael - 2011

Asian ones. Development ultimately requires, as it did across Asia, significant innovation and creativity in business … organization, technology, wider institutional structures, and government policies. -- Asia ; innovation ; lessons ; economic …

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Innovation capabilities for sustainable development in Africa

Lee, Keun; Juma, Calestous; Mathews, John A. - 2014

innovation capabilities and the capture of latecomer advantages. Africa has missed out on these possibilities in the twentieth …

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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?

Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011

government and political stability are important for the growth performance of African countries. -- growth ; innovation …

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The political economy of energy innovation

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica; Verdolini, Elena - 2016

lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy …

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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs : the role of management standards and innovation

Calza, Elisa; Goedhuys, Micheline; Trifkovic, Neda - 2017

test the hypothesis that, controlling for technological innovation (product and process) and other variables related to … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that … certification on productivity is particularly strong for firms with technological innovation. …

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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018

We investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify household and commune characteristics and...

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Elite capture or capture elites? : lessons from the 'counter-elite' and 'co-opt-elite' approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana

Wong, Sam - 2010

Community-based development has been criticized for its inadequate understanding of power relationships at the local level, which thus leaves room for elite capture. This paper compares and contrasts two case studies, both of which take power seriously in their institutional designs. The solar...

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Exporters and global value chain participation : firm-level evidence from South Africa

Mazzi, Caio Torres; Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; Avenyo, … - 2020

Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009-17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In particular, the paper uses extant classifications of...

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The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya

Musamali, Rodgers; Mutia, Cecilia; Ngugi, Rose W. - 2022

The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy initiatives to encourage savings mobilization are yet to yield the expected outcomes. This paper identifies the key drivers of domestic saving in Kenya, exploiting fintech as an...

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