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Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011

India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than other countries, but the growth rate is yet to reach the pre-crisis level. There is widespread...

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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina

Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it quantifies the impact of different types of innovations (process or product innovations) on employment growth and skill composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of...

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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America: The Microeconometric Evidence

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This presentation provides the comparative results of a project carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank to understand the links between innovation and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special attention is paid to the importance of sectoral and size difference in both...

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Performance Management of Double Bottom Line Institutions: Evidence from Banco Compartamos’s Productivity Distribution

Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011

of one of the most famous MFIs worldwide: Banco Compartamos. Our results suggest that productivity gains generated by the …

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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: is it Worth it for Older Workers ?

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...

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Who Benefits More From Nerica Varieties? Gender Differential Impact on Yield and Income in Benin

Kinkingninhoun-Medagbe, Florent M.; Diagne, Aliou; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

The NERICA varieties are modern rice varieties developed by AfricaRice which won its creator Monty Jones the 2004 World Food Prize. They are widely believed to offer hope for Africa’s Green Revolution because of their ability to grow under multiple stresses as well as their high response rate...

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RESOURCE UTILIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF CASSAVA PRODUCERS IN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE: STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH

Ogunbameru, A.; Okeowo, T.A. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

The Stochastic frontier production function was used to assess the technical efficiency of cassava production in Epe Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Results show that cassava farmers in the study area experienced increasing positive return-to-scale (2.2675. The study also reveals that a...

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Impact of Information and Communication Technology-based Market Information Services on Smallholder Farm Input Use and Productivity: The Case of Kenya

Ogutu, Sylvester O.; Okello, Julius J.; Otieno, David J. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation has been stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty … ICT-based market information service (MIS) project on farm input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds strong empirical …

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Competitiveness from Desideratum to the Strategic Objective of The Romanian Leadership

Stefan, Daniel Larentiu; Craciuneanu, Viorel - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 85-89

the Romanian leadership is the one which can help to identify a new model of economic growth based on the emphasised areas' development, areas which have shown their potential and competitiveness. Such a growth model would be based on the orientation of SMEs in Romania towards the foreign...

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