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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 1-2
; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms
Link, Albert N.; Scott, John Troy - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011
We investigate the impacts of the U.S. publicly-funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program’s funding on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351114
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach
Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this purpose, an empirical trade model is estimated from 1990-2008 panel data on 15 OECD countries and 12 manufacturing sectors. We find that along with Ricardian technological...
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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined needlessly to be left behind for years to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528352
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Remote area power supply system technologies in Western Australia: New developments in 30 years of slow progress
McHenry, Mark P. - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 5, pp. 1348-1353
The escalation of the renewable energy capacity growth rate in remote pastoral Western Australian (WA) off-grid stand-alone power supply (SPS) systems over the last decade was extraordinary. The expansion was encouraged by subsidised renewable energy technologies, enabling components and system...
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Report on National Mineral Policy
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
other resource countries such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, and Indonesia. It is imperative that the bottlenecks in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170138
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Developments in the Structure of the Australian Financial System
Donovan, Bernadette; Gorajek, Adam - In: RBA Bulletin (2011) June, pp. 29-40
Some countries’ financial systems have undergone significant changes in response to the global financial crisis. While Australia’s financial system also experienced a variety of pressures and changes as a result of the crisis, the overall effect was much less severe than in some...
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