Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 393
Cover Image
Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?
Yang, Jingjing; Khalil, Sana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
significantly explained by R&D manpower and expenditure, highly educated students, and public education spending, while GDP is …&D subsidies and education rebate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168665
Cover Image
Urban Governance of Disease
Katz, Rebecca; Mookherji, Sangeeta; Kaminski, Morgan; … - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 2, pp. 135-147
strengthen collaboration and communication among national and municipal agencies and between their local and international non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675959
Cover Image
High-tech R&D: How is China doing it?
OK, Süleyman Tuluğ - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 22 (2007) 250, pp. 5-15
This study investigates China’s tedious but patient path to development. Starting with the milestone year 1985, China’s first major step was to completely reform its science and technology (S&T) management system. This was followed up with the implementation of an ambitious long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650912
Cover Image
La ricostruzione dei consumi pubblici nel campo dell'istruzione nell’Italia liberale: 1861-1913
Coccia, Mimì; Torre, Giuseppe Della - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2007
General government activity in the field of education has recently assumed new interest due to the importance of two … education; b) the importance of public expenditure in the fields of education, health etc. in economic development. Between 1861 … and 1913, statistical information regarding Italian expenditure in education at local (provincial and municipal) level is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766568
Cover Image
Time Discounting, Education, and Growth: Evidence and a Simple Model
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 59 (2009) 1, pp. 71-86
In the paper we propose a new channel through which education may promote economic growth: education makes people more … findings are consistent with the causal effect of education on the subjective discount rate. In the second part of the paper … wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808643
Cover Image
A Model of Human Capital, Time Discounting and Economic Growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808662
Cover Image
The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126682
Cover Image
What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But these assumptions may lead to misleading inferences about impacts of schooling and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102107
Cover Image
HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837640
Cover Image
Analysis of the Development of the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek and It's Role in Building the Information Society
Barkovic, Drazen; Dukic, Gordana; Dukic, Darko - In: Interdisciplinary Management Research 4 (2008) May, pp. 488-504
-century-long tradition of higher education in Eastern Croatia, is one of the most important factors of development of the region. The new … programmes and projects as well as for the education and training of computer science human resources. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999224