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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. …
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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. …
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<italic>R</italic><sup>2</sup> and the Economy
Morck, Randall; Yeung, Bernard; Yu, Wayne - In: Annual Review of Financial Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 143-166
The characterization of firm-specific return volatility as the intensity with which firm-specific events occur reconciles many seemingly discordant results. A functionally efficient stock market allocates capital to its highest value uses, which often amounts to financing Schumpeterian creative...
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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233801
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The Effects of Mobile Phone Infrastructure: Evidence from Rural Peru
Beuermann, Diether; McKelvey, Christopher; Sotelo, Carlos - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2012
We exploit the timing of cell phone coverage in rural Peru to investigate its effects on economic development. We exploit information regarding the location, date of installation and technical characteristics of cell phone towers in order to construct coverage patterns at the village level from...
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Is there a role for genetics in economic development?
Angeles, Luis - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2012
Spolaore and Wacziarg (2009) have presented evidence supporting a role of genetic distance to the United States as a barrier to economic development. We extend their empirical work by controlling for the share of Europeans and European descendants in the population. We find that the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646027