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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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an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation … on establishments' political connections, their innovation activities, and their access to policy privileges. The … politically connected firms to over 7 percent for unconnected firms. The results are robust across different innovation measures …
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productivity and innovation to help policymakers promote China's future growth and achieve their vision of a modern and innovative … global innovation and technology frontier"-- …
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poverty-reducing performance has been the historic trajectory of innovation. During the 20th Century, most of global … innovation had its origins in the north, producing products for high income consumers, developing technologies which excluded … poor producers and technologies which were energy intensive and polluting. This innovation trajectory gave rise to the not …
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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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Short-term debt exposes firms to credit supply shocks and liquidity risk. Short-term debt can also reduce potential agency conflicts between managers and shareholders by exposing managers to more frequent monitoring by the market. This paper examines whether internal monitoring through...
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Renewing the social contract, one of the pillars of the new World Bank Group strategy for the Middle East and North Africa, requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service delivery; and a stronger private sector that can create...
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