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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...
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This study examines the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run. High land inequality increases income Gini coefficients in the urban sector as well as the rural sector, not only by creating congestion in the urban subsistence sector, but also by feeding the growth...
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This paper discusses the importance of sound policies for achieving social development and social justice in provision of education, training and health services in Sudan. Different from Sudanese literature, we provide new contributions by explaining the low commitment to the standardized...
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Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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This paper presents the ways due to which public stakeshares, private or civil society must respond to contemporary social problems being forced to seek new ways to solve public problems. In this context, a growing interest in public institutions to achieve partnerships with the private sector,...
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Knowledge, science and information have become powerful driving force that stimulates human and material potential …. Therefore creating a society with an economy based on high performance knowledge and ensuring sustainable human development is … of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and use this knowledge for new applications. According to the …
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The present paper examines the importance of education as a cornerstone to the knowledge-based society of future Europe … ”knowledge-based society”, it must promote and implement new, modern management techniques, knowledge, and tools to support such … activities. The most outstanding sector in the relationship among research, development and innovation is education regarded as …
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knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus …What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
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