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Leapfrogging : The Key to Africa's Development?
World Bank Group - 2017
Despite sustained economic growth over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive challenges and significant gaps in many development outcomes. Although poverty has been declining, a recent report estimates that over two-fifths of the African population was poor in 2012. Nearly...
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Integrating services in the economic fitness approach
Zaccaria, Andrea; Mishra, Saurabh; Cader, Masud; … - 2018
Economic Complexity is a set of network-based and algorithmic methods for the study of economic development and competitiveness. In this framework, Economic Fitness is an innovative approach that improves the mathematical and conceptual scheme. For convenience, these methods were originally...
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Enforcing competition and firm productivity : evidence from 1,800 Peruvian municipalities
Schiffbauer, Marc; Sampi, James - 2019
competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …
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Corporate market power in Romania : assessing recent trends, drivers, and implications for competition
Iootty, Mariana; Pop, Georgiana; Pena, Jorge - 2020
the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania … environment that is less conducive to competition. A decomposition exercise shows that the increase in aggregate markups has been … ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania …
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Technology Transfer and Innovation for Low-Carbon Development
Pigato, Miria - 2020
Technological revolutions have increased the world's wealth to a level that was once unimaginable. They have done so unevenly, however, and in ways that have accelerated climate change. Technology Transfer and Innovation for Low-Carbon Development argues that most of the emissions reductions...
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Ukraine Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Regulatory Review
World Bank Group - 2017
This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. The review presents an...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Public Research Institutions : Fostering Knowledge Linkages and Transferring Technology in Malaysia
World Bank Group - 2020
The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1]. While the GDP growth rate has proven resilient in recent years, declining oil and gas output, coupled with economic shocks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, havedented...
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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world
Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020
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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Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization : a summary of market processes and policy suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
, competition policy, public support to innovation, fiscal and regulatory incentives for innovation, macroeconomic frameworks …
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Technology within and across firms
Cirera, Xavier; Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2020
This study collects data on the sophistication of technologies used at the business function level for a representative sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology sophistication across the business functions of a firm....
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