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Policy responses by different agents/stakeholders in a transition: Integrating the Multi-level Perspective and behavioral economics
Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Drake, Ben; Jackson, Tim; … - WWWforEurope - 2013
This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
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Côte d’Ivoire; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Côte d’Ivoire's government decided on the National Development Plan to give a new impetus to its development policy. This new strategy is based on an ambitious and realistic recovery and development program centered on private and public investment. The institutional monitoring framework for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244156
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Kenya; Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper discusses key findings of the Ex Post Assessment (EPA) of Longer-Term Program Engagement paper for Kenya. This EPA focuses on 1993–2007, when Kenya was engaged in four successive IMF arrangements. Macroeconomic policy design was broadly appropriate, and implementation was...
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Politics of Governance: A Study of Gujarat
Shah, Ghanshyam - In: Studies in Indian Politics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 65-77
This article is a study of political economy of Gujarat in the context of the issues pertaining to ‘good governance’. The article reviews Gujarat’s socio-economic development with respect to key indicators of environment, health, education and welfare programmes. It presents...
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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in the Economy
Kowalewski, Oskar; Weresa, Marzenna A. - Rainer Hampp Verlag
A key component of economic globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a special role in stimulating the growth of countries’ competitiveness. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth, with a special focus...
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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the methodology proposed by the European Commission in the study about the “European Innovation Scoreboard 2007 … of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …
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A model-based assessment of first-mover advantage and climate policy
Pollitt, Hector; Summerton, Philip; Klaassen, Ger - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 17 (2015) 2, pp. 299-312
This paper provides a model-based macroeconomic assessment of First-Mover Advantage (FMA) in environmental technologies, in which a European sector becomes world leader and captures the global market for a particular technology. The E3MG model is used to assess a set of scenarios where the FMA...
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Social Capital, Innovation and Economic Growth
Thompson, Maria - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2015
Multidisciplinary innovation is the engine of growth of an increasing number of economies. Innovation output depends … importance of social capital to the growth of an innovation economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241623
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The poverty problem and the industrialization solution
Alvarez, Sharon; Barney, Jay; Newman, Arielle - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 32 (2015) 1, pp. 23-37
<Para ID="Par5">Despite decades of effort, abject poverty remains a serious problem in many countries around the world. The effects of five approaches to poverty alleviation—foreign aid, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, base of the pyramid initiatives, and the establishment of property rights among the...</para>
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