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The long run survival of small nations. A dynamic view
Pieretti, Patrice; Zanaj, Skerdilajda; Zou, Benteng - 2010
policy instruments, for given policy choices of the rest of the world. Applying Pontryagin's maximum principle, we then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452566
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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11.481J / 1.284J / ESD.284J Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Change, Spring 2004
Polenske, Karen R.; Wang, Xiaodong - 2004
Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and global supply chains from a political-economy perspective. Examines/critiques accounting frameworks including accounting for the underground economy, multipliers, linkages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432743
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11.481J / 1.284J / ESD.192J Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Change, Spring 2006
Polenske, Karen R.; Biderman, Ciro - 2006
Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and global supply chains from a political-economy perspective. Examines/critiques accounting frameworks including accounting for the underground economy, multipliers, linkages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433030
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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004
Tendler, Judith - 2004
Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432508
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries
Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008
This paper addresses the political acceptability and workability of CDM by and in developing countries. At COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997, the general position among developing countries changed from strong rejection of joint implementation to acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435560
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Future Air Conditioning Energy Consumption in Developing Countriesand what can be done about it: The Potential of Efficiency in theResidential Sector
McNeil, Michael A.; Letschert, Virginie E. - 2008
The dynamics of air conditioning are of particular interestto energy analysts, both because of the high energy consumption of thisproduct, but also its disproportionate impact on peak load. This paperaddresses the special role of this end use as a driver of residentialelectricity consumption in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436036
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2007 Case Study Review of Inventor Assistance Organizations
Wilkins, Joy; Tucker, Phaedra - 2008
world are adopting new ways to identify their human capital and improve their economic productivity. The independent … by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute launched an effort in … Innovator Assistance Pilot ProgramSM. At the heart of this pilot program is the desire to advance productivity, innovation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476112
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Report on Georgia's Innovation Forums of 2006
Wilkins, Joy; Brown, Mac - 2006
Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476113