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$1.90 per day : what does it say?
Reddy, Sanjay; Lahoti, Rahul - 2015
The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a standard for identifying who is poor and who is not that is consistent and meaningful. The new choice of an international poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way...
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Levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world : what we know and what we don't
Klasen, Stephan - 2009
This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels...
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Operational strategies for distributing durable goods in the base of the pyramid
Calmon, Andre P.; Jue-Rajasingh, Diana; Romero, Gonzalo; … - 2019 - Revised version of 2018/04/TOM
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Challenges in marketing socially useful goods to the poor
Garrette, Bernard; Karnani, Aneel Gobindram - 2009
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Armutsbekämpfung durch Reduktion von Korruption : eine Rolle für Unternehmen?
Beckmann, Klaus; Gerrits, Carsten - 2008
We consider an argument that it might be helpful to combat poverty in developing countries indirectly by enlisting firms‘ help (as corporate citizens) in reducing corruption. It turns out that this argument crucially depends on a fair number of presmises, including (a) a common interest of...
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Growth and poverty reduction under globalization : the systematic impact of exchange rate misalignment
Sawada, Yasuyuki (contributor);  … - 2006
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The importance of tacit knowledge : dynamic inventor activity in the commercialization phase
Maurseth, Per Botolf; Svensson, Roger - 2020
(1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor … possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … activity. However, imperfect IPRs may reduce inventors' incentives to engage in the commercialization process. We analyze when …
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Academic knowledge commercialization in Romania : a discriminant analysis
Pantelică, Cristina - 2012
different patterns of academic knowledge commercialization in 90 Romanian universities, using the data collected by the Romanian … relation to the two discriminant functions. Policy implications aimed at improving academic knowledge commercialization at each …In the modern knowledge economy, Higher Education Institutions are being required to operate more entrepreneurially …
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Commercialization of microfinance : perspectives from South and Southeast Asia
Charitonenko, Stephanie; Campion, Anita; Fernando, Nimal A. - 2004
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