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Innovation systems and regional clustering: the diffusion of knowledge for sustainability issues

Santos, Rita; Leal, Walter; Mirra, Evando - 2010

The innovation systems perspective is primarily concerned with the knowledge flow and diffusion and its positive impact of stimulating economic growth. In innovation systems observed at the regional level there is a tendency of technologically dynamic production to become spatially concentrated...

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Estimating the production function for human capital: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Territorial Cooperation and socio-economic development in the Old EU , New EU and Non EU

Topaloglou, Lefteris; Cupcea, Victor; Kallioras, Dimitris; … - 2012

Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...

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Sustainability dimensions of agricultural development in Almería (Spain): The experience of 50 years

Galdeano-Gómez, Emilio; Aznar-Sánchez, José A.; … - 2012

of development in many regions of the world. As well as guaranteeing the production of food and other basic products … development can currently be said to be one of the main objectives of communities and societies. However, it is subject to … up sustainable development. Along these lines, different practical experiences on an international level have illustrated …

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Small firms' formalization: The stick treatment

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Ploenzke, Matthew; Rahman, Aminur - 2015

Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, and Bangladesh is no exception. The informal status of many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore affects the provision of public goods. The literature on encouraging formalization has focused predominantly on...

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Lights, camera...income!: Estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014

In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...

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Climate change adaptation in Burkina Faso: Aid dependency and obstacles to political participation

Eguavoen, Irit; Wahren, Julia - 2015

development themes and little responsiveness to farmers' concerns and needs, leading to a lack of political interest. Farmers' low …

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Agriculture in Brazil's Southeast region: Limitations and future challenges to development

de Castro, César Nunes - 2014

aims to identify constraints to agricultural development in the region and discuss measures that can contribute to the … mentioned some measures: improvement in logistics infrastructure; social development of rural areas through mechanisms of … generating income for family farmers; the agricultural research in the region needs to provide solutions for further development …

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Política industrial na China, na Índia e no Brasil: Legados, dilemas de coordenação e perspectivas

Delgado, Ignacio Godinho - 2015

The article focuses on the recovery of industrial policy in China, India and Brazil from late twentieth century on. First, it indicates the challenges of industrial policy for the semi-peripheral countries in the contemporary world. Then, it discusses the paths of catching up in the countries...

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A administração pública deliberativa: Inteligência coletiva e inovação institucional a serviço do público

Tarragó, Daniel; Brugué, Quim; Cardoso Júnior, José … - 2015

A Deliberative Public Administration is a political commitment to progressive and progressive transformation of public administration, especially in countries like Brazil, whose accumulated experiments of citizen participation has excelled around the world. Therefore, it is argued in favor of...

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