the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the … 1996 and 2006 experienced lower aggregate employment growth during the period than those that did not. A wide array of …

We assess the impact of the location of genuinely new ventures and spinoffs on these firms’ survival, productivity and … growth. The study distinguishes between four different categories of locations: metro cities, metro regions, urban areas, and …

We assess the impact of the location of genuinely new ventures and spinoffs on these firms’ survival, productivity and … growth. The study distinguishes between four different categories of locations: metro cities, metro regions, urban areas, and …

growth rates or survival time of manufacturing firms. Taken together, these results show that innovation is not uniformly … efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … survival. We find that both types of knowledge input - R&D and imports - strongly determine innovation. Innovations yield the …

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian …-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

, utilising China¡¯s provincial data from 1984 to 1997. We find a bidirectional causal linkage between FDI and productivity growth …. China¡¯s economic growth is found largely due to the rapid expansion of investment in fixed assets. Human capital … issue of how to improve economic efficiency and technology transfer in order to sustain China¡¯s rapid growth in the long …