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Inclusive innovation seeks to expand access to essential goods and services, thereby improving quality of life, and … directly at the needs of excluded populations. Inclusive innovation is of high relevance for the Chinese authorities, but the … innovation, yet has recognized the importance of inclusive innovation in addressing increasing disparity between the rich and …
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This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …
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This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
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-seeking drives resources away from innovation. These two channels can help in understanding why Argentina has more misallocation …
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This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …
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The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this...
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understanding on how China's NDC could be seen as a powerful vehicle for innovation and help shift the country toward a new …
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This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...
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should support the capabilities of people (skills) and firms (innovation), and provide a level-playing field for people and …
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This report examines Ukraine's economic decline and development through the lens of technology upgrading. The technology upgrading framework assumes that economic growth is a function of technology capability, whereby upgrading occurs through technological, industrial, and organizational change....
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