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Component-Based Software Engineering - The Need to Link Methods and Their Theories
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses some of the difficulties and significant issues that authors need to consider when developing a formal method for component-based software engineering. Authors argue that to...
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Extending Message-Oriented Middleware
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Different types of middleware exist to facilitate the integration of software running on heterogeneous computing platforms. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), for instance, enables the interaction...
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Strategic Partnering With Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives And Treasures
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. The results indicate that Chinese companies enter into...
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What Does Innovation In Emerging Economies Have To Offer Other Low Income Economies?
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Between 1970 and 2000 the proportion of global R&D occurring in low income economies rose from two percent to more than 20 percent. However, this rising commitment to R&D does not easily translate...
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Using Innovation Surveys For Econometric Analysis
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, the authors discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and...
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CSR And Market Changing Product Innovations: Indian Case Studies
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Do firms need to sacrifice profit while innovating in order to further social objectives, as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) would seem to suggest? To answer this question, the paper...
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Entrepreneurship And The National System Of Innovation What Is Missing In Turkey?
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows assessing whether this low level of innovative...
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Impact Of Government Support On R&D And Innovation
May 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluates whether public support from innovation from the central government or the European Union spurs innovation in Austrian firms. The effect is estimated separately on R&D...
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Entrepreneurship Development And The Role Of Economic Transition In Entrepreneurial Activities In China
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to elaborate on the entrepreneurship development in China and the role of China's economic transition in Chinese entrepreneurial activities. The authors address China's...
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Pro-Poor, Entrepreneur-Based Innovation And It's Role In Rural Development
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Innovation spurs economic growth and development. Pro-poor innovation in rural areas is more likely to occur through small-scale ventures and entrepreneurs than industrial research and...
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Financing Pro-Poor Entrepreneur-Based Innovation: A Review Of Existing Literature
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
That innovation and entrepreneurship are important for poverty alleviation and development is well established. However, despite a general agreement that finance affects growth and development by...
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India's Rural Financial System: Does It Support Pro-Poor Innovation?
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
From the perspective of poverty alleviation, socially relevant, or pro?]poor, rural innovation is of particular interest in a country like India since it is in rural areas that most of the poor...
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Assessing Innovations In International Research And Development Practice
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper integrates two distant bodies of literature - the literature on impact assessment of research and development interventions, and the literature on social psychology of assessing...
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Bridging The Financing Gap For Pro-Poor Innovation: Towards A Framework
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In many developing countries, pro-poor entrepreneurship and innovation is facing a financing gap. Such innovation suffers from a lack of finance especially from the mainstream (or core) of the...
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Innovation Strategy, Firm Survival And Relocation: The Case Of Hong Kong-Owned Manufacturing In Guangdon Province, China
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this paper finds that, in the changing manufacturing environment of Guangdong province in China, Hong...
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Interrupted Innovation: Innovation System Dynamics In Latecomer Aerospace Industries
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors analyse the role of sectoral innovation systems in the emergence and catch-up of aerospace industries in latecomer economies. They argue that the aerospace sector is...
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Social Impacts Of The Development Of Science, Technology And Innovation Indicators
March 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The approach deals separately with the development process and with the use of the...
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Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
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On The Delivery Of Pro-Poor Innovations: Managerial Lessons From Sanitation Activists In India
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is an emerging body of literature that examines how pro-poor product innovations should be created and what business models should accompany them. However, there is little on actual...
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Economic Adversity And Entrepreneurship-Led Growth Lessons From The Indian Software Sector
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, the authors draw on the...
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Importance Of Technological Innovation For SME Growth Evidence From India
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper probes the drivers, dimensions, achievements, and outcomes of technological innovations carried out by SMEs in the auto components, electronics, and machine tool sectors of Bangalore in...
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Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
January 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
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Endogenous Economic Growth Through Connectivity
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region they show how welfare measured by utility per head increases as the...
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Habit Formation, Demand And Growth Through Product Innovation
January 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
Growth theory has mainly focused on process innovation, either through an increase in quality of the product or a reduction on the cost. The main contribution in growth theory that includes...
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The Diffusion Of Informal Knowledge And Innovation Performance: A Sectoral Approach
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper tries to quantify the effect of diffusion of informal knowledge on the innovative performance of European firms using data derived from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey. When firms...
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Growth With Imported Resources: On The Sustainability Of U.S. Growth And Foreign Debt
June 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide a growth model with imported resources and foreign debt accumulation providing the basis for two questions and regression equations. Under what conditions do growth rates of...
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Innovative Sales, R&D And Total Innovation Expenditures: Panel Evidence On Their Dynamics
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Com-munity Innovation...
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Innovation And Economic Development
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Is innovation important for development? And if so, how? One popular perception of innovation, that one meets in media every day, is that has to do with developing brand new, advanced solutions...
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Innovation For The Base Of The Pyramid: Critical Perspectives From Development Studies On Heterogeneity And Participation
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper criticises current BoP approaches for under-appreciating two issues that play vital roles in projects targeting the poor at the BoP: heterogeneity among the poor, and the intricacies of...
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Innovation Dynamics In Tuberculosis Control In India: The Shift To New Partnerships
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Tuberculosis remains the biggest infectious killer in India and worldwide, and it has recently regained substantial international attention with its come-back in drug resistant forms. The...
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What Do Complex Adaptive Systems Look Like And What Are The Implications For Innovation Policy?
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the use of complex adaptive systems theory in development policy analysis using a case study drawn from recent events in Uganda. It documents the changes that took place in the...
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Environmental Innovation: Using Qualitative Models To Identify Indicators For Policy
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Environmental innovation is an essential part of a knowledge based economy, as environmental innovation makes economies more efficient by encouraging and facilitating the use of fewer material or...
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Types Of Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. They use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides...
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Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, And Development: A Finnish View
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper first reviews the economic rationales for innovation policy. It then describes the Finnish innovation policy and policy making environment. The Finnish policy is evaluated from the...
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The Growth Of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship In India, 1991 - 2007
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is enough consensus to show that India's economic performance since 1991 is a direct result of the economic liberalization measures that have been put in place. One of the outcomes of this...
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Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship And Development
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing...
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Innovation And Microenterprises Growth In Ethiopia
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses two prominent issues on the development of small enterprises in Africa. Which factors inhibit or foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more...
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Is That Innovation? Assessing Examples Of Revitalized Economic Dynamics Among Clusters Of Small Producers In Northern Vietnam
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by studying four cases of new technologies, products and business practices in...
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Tacit Knowledge And Innovation Capacity: Evidence From The Indian Livestock Sector
November 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
To cope and compete in this rapidly-changing world, organisations need to access and apply new knowledge. While explicit knowledge is important, what is often critical is an organisation's ability...
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Technology Frontier, Labor Productivity And Economic Growth: Evidence From OECD Countries
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use 29 OECD countries data spanning over 1960-2000 to study the growth strategy when countries are close to the technology frontier. Relying on a semi-parametric generalized additive...
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The Financial Crisis Of 2008 And The Developing Countries
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Following the financial crisis that broke in the US and other Western economies in late 2008, there is now serious concern about its impact on the developing countries. The world media almost...
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Linkages, Access To Finance And The Performance Of Small-Scale Enterprises In Kenya
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Micro- and Small-scale Enterprises (MSEs) have become important players in the Kenyan economy, but at the same time they continue to face constraints that limit their development. Lack of access...
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Into The Void: Governing Finance In Central And Eastern Europe
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain - which for decades had separated East from West - most countries of Central and Eastern Europe are now members of the European Union; some have...
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Gearing Macroeconomic Policies To Manage Large Inflows Of ODA
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how macroeconomic policies can be managed to accommodate a large inflow of foreign aid to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic and still maintain macroeconomic stability. Because of...
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Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief And Public Finance Response
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Substantial amounts of debt relief have been granted to a set of low-income countries, as an alternative aid modality. Although the theoretical case for debt relief is firmly established, only...
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How Does Colonial Origin Matter For Economic Performance In Sub- Saharan Africa?
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were...
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Remittances And Financial Inclusion In Development
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between remittance inflows and financial inclusion in developing countries. They present single equation estimates on remittances and financial...
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Sensitivity Of Loan Size To Lending Rates: Evidence From Ghana's Microfinance Sector
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used...
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Globalizing Households And Multi-Ethnic Community Building In Japan
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The East Asian countries are currently experiencing declining fertility rates and aging of their populations. The demographic transition is beginning to affect various societal functions, and...
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A Survey Of Growth And Development Issues Of The Pacific Islands
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper is a survey of some key variables with an international dimension and implications for growth and development policies in selected Pacific island countries. Results from a simple growth...
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Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty And Distribution Trends In An Era Of Globalization
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994 created new possibilities for economic policy. Economic liberalization brought sustained, if unspectacular, growth that reversed the long decline in...
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Globalization And The Urban Poor
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the 'Global south'. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized...
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Globalization And The Human Development Trap
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The feeble results of liberalization policies in Latin America are explained in terms of a multiple steady state model including a dynamic human development trap, endogenous technological change,...
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Globalization And Marginalization In Africa
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Increased openness is seen by some as a panacea for development while for others it is a recipe for disaster for the poor. Using the example of Ethiopia, this paper discusses some of the key...
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Globalization, Crop Choice And Property Rights In Rural Peru, 1994-2004
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the results of initial work analyzing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional...
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Globalization, Growth, Inequality And Poverty In Africa
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The last two decades has witnessed an increase in globalizing influences affecting most countries, Africa included. These influences have arisen partly as a result of domestic and international...
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Gender Dimensions To The Incidence Of Tariff Liberalization
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluates a topic in the globalization and poverty debate that is often difficult to measure, namely the transmission of price changes associated with tariff liberalization to...
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Estimating The Level And Distribution Of Global Household Wealth
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean assets and debts within countries are measured, partly or wholly, for 38 countries using...
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Distributional Impact Of Globalization-Induced Migration
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the contentious issues about the globalization process is the mechanism by which globalization affects poverty and inequality. This paper explores one of the various strands of the...
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Changing Land-Tenure Arrangements And Access To Primary Assets Under Globalization
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper illustrates how, in relation to globalization, formal and informal land institutions are prone to generate conflict over land rights and examines the implications of such conflicts on...
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Trading Inequality? Insights From The Two Globalizations In Latin America
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Trade flows among countries have increased dramatically during the last globalization episode creating new winners and losers between and within countries. This paper revisits the contested topic...
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Source Of Finance, Growth And Firm Size - Evidence From China
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and...
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The Finnish Developmental State And Its Growth Regime
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive mobilization of resources during this period, reflected mostly in a high rate of...
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Entrepreneurship Is Not A Binding Constraint On Growth And Development In The Poorest Countries
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is often claimed that entrepreneurship is indispensable for economic growth and development. These claims are mostly generated by scholars working in the field of entrepreneurship and...
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth And Policy In Emerging Economies
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur simultaneously in all developed countries. Differences in growth rates are often...
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Early International Entrepreneurship In China
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors use data on 3,948 Chinese firms obtained from the World Bank's Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey to investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new...
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The Danish Model And The Globalizing Learning Economy
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Although Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and...
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Brazil's Growth Performance
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews Brazil's growth performance over the last quarter of a century and discusses the main determinants of a pick-up in growth since the mid-1990s. Emphasis is placed on the policy...
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Trade With China And India And Manufacturing Labour Demand In Argentina
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two 'Mighty giants' on the region's manufacturing sector. Are...
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Structural Change, Technology, And Economic Growth: Brazil And The CIBS In A Comparative Perspective
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Schumpeterian growth theory stresses the role of structural change in long run growth. Countries which increase the share of technology-intensive sectors in their economic structures benefit more...
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Inequality And The Impact Of Growth On Poverty: Comparative Evidence For Sub-Saharan Africa
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) comparatively with non-SSA, based on a global...
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Indian Economic Growth
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Can the people use neoclassical growth model to single out the important transmission channels through which external factors or 'Primitives' affected the Indian economy and caused the remarkable...
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The Impact Of Reform On Economic Growth In China: A Principal Component Analysis
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The paper decomposes the sources of Chinese growth by first making a distinction between technological progress and technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a...
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Growth Oriented Macroeconomic Policies For Small Islands Economies
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Most small island economies or 'Microstates' have distinctly different characteristics from larger developing economies. They are more open and vulnerable to external and environmental shocks,...
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Growth And Trade Horizons For Asia
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Economic emergence of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India has fundamentally altered the economic landscape of Asia and its relation to the global economy. Using the new dynamic global...
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Globalization And Smallholders
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning over 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala to explore how household characteristics and external...
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Globalization And Health: Impact Pathways And Recent Evidence
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The last two decades of the twentieth century recorded a slowdown in health gains and widespread increases in health inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such...
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Globalization, Literacy Levels, And Economic Development
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels, and inequality measures for the period 1990 - 2000 using data on 54 developing countries at five-yearly intervals. The main...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment, And Economic Growth In China: A Time Series Analysis
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the causal link between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), domestic investment and economic growth in China for the period 1988-2003. Towards this purpose, a...
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Export Productivity, Finance, And Economic Growth
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Using a panel of 139 countries over the period 1992-2003, the authors analyze the links between export productivity, economic growth and financial development indicators. They then investigate...
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