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males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …
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decline have fallen as obviously. These results are consistent with the idea that industrialization in employment terms has … been more important for eventual prosperity than has industrialization in output terms; and that high manufacturing … industrialization may have become more difficult. …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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employment innovate more often. To commercially exploit their inventions, we no longer find a gender effect but higher levels of … professional experience and distinct human capital resources facilitating this step of innovation activity. …
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. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …
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This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …
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In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and …
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