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It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...
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Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be...
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Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading. As nations develop, they progress in terms of their characteristic competitive advantage and modes of competing.
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in …
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quality of education. The purpose is to compare, in a completely dispassionate way, the academic achievements of public and … (voucher-type) program for subsidizing private education and because it has a fairly wide and accessible amount of data … pupil/teacher ratio. The quality of education is measured by the performance of students in standardized national tests …
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Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also … document : la libéralisation du secteur financier ; renforcer la concurrence sur les marchés des biens et services ; l’éducation …
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firm. These, and not only these, can be considered as successful models to follow by Romanian SMEs. …
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