premises of this research and review and integrate much of what has been learned on the processes of technological evolution …, their main features and their effects on the evolution of industries. First, we map and integrate the various pieces of … economic growth and development as an innovation driven evolutionary process. …

effect, and promote financial development. These findings hold even after factoring in the reverse causality between … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

In this work, meant as an introduction to the contributions of the task force on Industrial Policies and Development … development. We begin by arguing how misleading the "market failure" language can be in order to assess the necessity of public … empirical evidence we argue that even when one encounters a prevailing market form of governance of economic interactions, the …

learning. The rates and patterns of development of such capabilities are fundamentally shaped by the opportunities that … also influenced by the governance of intellectual property rights (IPRs). The purpose of this work - prepared for a volume … then review the historical evidence on the roles of patents in economic development. Next we discuss the changes in the IPR …

of Policies for Industrial Development", edited by M. Cimoli, G. Dosi and J. E. Stiglitz, Oxford University Press … the chapter discusses the opportunities and constraints associated with the current regimes of trade and IPR governance …

The recent development literature stresses that countries that receive large revenues from natural resource endowments … typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax … that it is invariant to governance indicators. …

achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the support of the international donor community. The paper stresses that …