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decrease and increase inequality within total growth. Our findings indicate that technology or innovation alone does not …
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panel estimation, we extend the standard ‘Kuznets-curve' empirical framework to investigate how globalisation, financial …
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Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but there is mounting concern that more sophisticated and cost-effective technology could displace workers through automation or reshoring of production. We use the demand-based input-output approach in Reijnders...
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Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but technology can also displace workers through automation or reshoring of production. We use an input–output approach to examine how employment responded to consumption, trade, and technological progress in...
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credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and … acquiring external know-how. We find no evidence that bank credit also stimulates firm innovation through in-house R&D. This …
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This report assesses major opportunities and constraints for the development of Eastern Africa's manufacturing sector, considers suitable examples from other regions, and draws lessons to enhance the manufacturing sector's contribution to Eastern Africa's economic transformation. The report is a...
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The participation of business in partnership initiatives for sustainable development has intensified significantly since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. By 2014, there were about 1,000 voluntary commitments and multilateral partnerships in various fields of activity involving...
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This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal … clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a.ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find … strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is, CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency …
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