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A Different Look At Inward FDI Into Mainland China
November 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper aims to find out the relationship between inward FDI into China and China's economic development. According to the descriptive analysis of FDI data from 1980 till 2007, the authors...
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Systems Of Innovation
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors review the literature on national innovation systems. They first focus on the emergence of the concept of innovation systems, reviewing its historical origins and three main flavours...
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Drivers And Barriers Of Innovation Dynamics In Healthcare Towards A Framework For Analyzing Innovation In Tuberculosis Control In India
November 20, 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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Standards As A Platform For Innovation And Learning In The Global Economy: A Case Study Of Chilean Salmon Farming Industry
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Conventionally, standards are considered as a governance tool in the production system in a one-directional and hierarchical relationship between foreign Trans-National Corporations (TNCs) or...
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Rough Road To Market: Institutional Barriers To Innovations In Africa
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and institutional barriers. Research into and...
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Empirical Studies Of Innovation In The Knowledge Driven Economy
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level...
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Employment, Innovation, And Productivity: Evidence From Italian Microdata
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment...
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Are Firms That Received R&D Subsidies More Innovative?
May 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper looks at the effectiveness of R&D grants for Canadian plants that already benefit from R&D tax credits. Using a non-parametric matching estimator, the authors find that firms that...
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The Global Challenges Of The Knowledge Economy: China And The EU
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses some of the challenges confronting the European Union and China as they build their knowledge economies, and their on-going and possible future actions to address such...
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Short-Term Effects Of New Universities On Regional Innovation
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. The authors examine how the opening of new science, medicine and engineering departments...
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The Voyage Of The Beagle In Innovation Systems Land. Explorations On Sectors, Innovation, Heterogeneity And Selection
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, the authors...
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Knowledge-Based Productivity In 'Low-Tech' Industries: Evidence From Firms In Developing Countries
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using firm level data from five countries - Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, Tanzania and Bangladesh - this paper examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food...
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Crafting Firm Competencies To Improve Innovative Performance
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This paper extends this stream of...
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Embedding Research In Society: Development Assistance Options For Supporting Agricultural Innovation In A Global Knowledge Economy
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to...
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Productivity Effects Of Innovation, Stress And Social Relations
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Innovation is a source of increasing productivity, but it is also a source of stress. Psychological research shows that moderate stress increases the productivity of an actor, but above a certain...
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Entrepreneurship And Innovation Strategies In ICT SMEs In Enlarged Europe (EU25)
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this paper. Findings of the study are based on the data collected from 1238 small ICT firms located...
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Knowledge Transfers Between Canadian Business Enterprises And Universities: Does Distance Matter?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines whether the transfer of knowledge flows from universities to enterprises in Canada is hampered by the geographical distance that separates them. The transfer of knowledge flows...
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The Innovativeness Of Foreign Firms In China
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the relationship between foreign ownership and innovations of high novelty in context of advanced developing countries. The authors develop hypotheses about a direct...
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Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation And Economic Performance In Developing Countries: A Discussion Of Alternative Specifications
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the importance of local knowledge spillovers for the innovative and economic performance of firms in a developing country context. Theoretical and empirical studies in advanced...
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Localized Innovation, Localized Diffusion And The Environment: An Analysis Of CO2 Emission Reductions By Passenger Cars, 2000-2007
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate technological change with regard to CO2 emissions by passenger cars, using a Free Disposal Hull methodology to estimate technological frontiers. They have a sample of cars...
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A Multilevel Analysis Of Innovation In Developing Countries
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only characteristics of firms but also environment within which firms operate matter. Although this has been for long recognized in the literature, a...
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Public Capital, Income Distribution And Growth
September 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Public capital investment plays an important role in long run growth through enhancing productivity and complementing the accumulation of private inputs. Under appropriate conditions, public...
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The Innovative Performance Of Alliance Block Members: Evidence From The Microelectronics Industry
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The primary goal of this paper is to improve the understanding of the complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance networks and their innovative performance. In...
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Export Demand Elasticities As Determinants Of Growth: Estimates For Mauritius
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors combine the export-led and import-led growth hypotheses in a growth model in which the importation of foreign capital goods and the demand elasticities of own export...
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Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility A Channel Of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence From A Linked Employer-Employee Panel
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from...
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Innovation And Competitive Capacity In Bangladesh's Pharmaceutical Sector
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The global pharmaceutical sector is highly patent intensive, and firms rely on product, process and formulation patents to protect their innovations. Intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical...
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Determinants Of Alliance Portfolio Complexity And Its Effect On Innovative Performance Of Companies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a...
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Financial Constraints And Other Obstacles: Are They A Threat To Innovation Activity?
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. They report...
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Assessment Of Effectiveness Of China Aid In Financing Development In Sudan
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper fills the gap in the Sudanese literature and discusses the effectiveness of Chinese aid for financing development in Sudan using new primary data at the micro level. The authors find...
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Russia's Emerging Multinational Companies Amidst The Global Economic Crisis
January 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Internationalisation of Russian companies has become a distinctive phenomenon and has drawn attention of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike. Newly emerged Russian companies have...
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The Incidence And Transfer Of Knowledge In The Arab Countries
December 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors use the systematic, descriptive and statistical approaches, fill the gap in the Arab literature and present a more comprehensive analysis of the important ways of...
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The Impact Of ICT In The Transformation And Production Of Knowledge In Sudan
December 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the impact of ICT in the transformation and production of knowledge, notably in Sudan, and discusses the importance of the use of ICT in Khartoum University. It considers how...
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Assessment Of Science And Technology Indicators In Sudan
December 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's definition of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators (OECD,...
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Making Your Own Future. Expectations And Occupation Choice
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The choice of a university career has a major saying in the future earnings and career opportunities of the individuals. In turn, prospective university students make their decisions mainly...
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A Note On Testing For Complementarity And Substitutability In The Case Of Multiple Practices
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent empirical studies of firm-level performance have tested complementarity in the case of multiple practices. These papers have drawn conclusions using potentially biased estimates of...
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Public R&D Subsidies And Productivity: Evidence From Firm-Level Data In Quebec
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses empirically the impacts of public R&D grants on private R&D investments and on the productivity growth of the manufacturing firms in a context where fiscal incentives are...
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New Organisational And Institutional Vehicles For Managing Innovation In South Asia: Opportunities For Using Research For Technical Change And Social Gain
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in order to put research into use for social gain. There no longer remains any...
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Global Excellence At The Expense Of Local Relevance, Or A Bridge Between Two Worlds? Research In Science And Technology In The Developing World
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Do world-leading researchers from developing countries contribute to upgrading locally, or do they disengage from the local context? The paper investigates the scientific collaborations of...
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Efficient Development Portfolio Design For Sub Saharan Africa
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Stiglitz report published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country's development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per...
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The R&D Activity Of Multinational Enterprises In Peripheral Economies: Evidence From The EU New Member States
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of MNEs on innovation systems and the policy options available for peripheral economies to attract and embed the R&D activities of MNEs. After developing the...
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Component Trade And China's Global Economic Integration
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely 'Cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing...
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China's Development Strategy And Energy Security
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China's energy security. China's...
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Aid Effectiveness: Looking At The Aid-Social Capital-Growth Nexus
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. They find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover,...
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Aid And Growth In Fragile States
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The literature on aid has come a long way in recent years, and as a result the authors now know much more about aid effectiveness than possibly ever before. But significant gaps in knowledge...
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Peace, Prosperity, And Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper, the author critically evaluates this view....
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Southern Engines Of Global Growth
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper views the four economies of the South in a long run historical perspective of 1500-2000. It contrasts the history and the initial endowments of the two Northern hemisphere economies...
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China, India, Brazil And South Africa In The World Economy
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper attempts to analyze the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the world economy. It...
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Understanding The African Growth Record: The Importance Of Policy Syndromes And Governance
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The current paper, first, finds that although the post-independence growth of African economies has fallen substantially below that of other regions, this comparative evidence is less than uniform...
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Revisiting The Global Food Architecture: Lessons From The 2008 Food Crisis
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. In 2008, the world saw food prices explode,...
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The Global Economic Crisis
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper outlines the impact of the global economic crisis on Africa. Recovery requires coordinated and consistent efforts to assist individual countries in mitigating the risk, coping with the...
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The Nordic Development And Growth Models
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Nordic countries are often bundled together, as representatives of a 'Model' which combines high living standards and an open market economy with social insurance and ambitious public...
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Mozambique's Elite - Finding Its Way In A Globalized World And Returning To Old Development Models
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? The authors argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international...
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The Impact Of The Global Commodity And Financial Crises On Poverty In Vietnam
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in...
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Aid, Growth, And Development
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and...
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Inequality, Income And Poverty
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Analysing a large sample of 1980 - 2004 unbalanced panel data, the current paper presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves...
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Income Distribution And Growth's Ability To Reduce Poverty
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The present paper examines the degree to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African...
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ICT Sector, Globalization And Urban Economic Growth
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights...
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Globalizing Shanghai
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'Ultimate poster-child for the...
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Globalization And Exclusionary Urban Growth In Asian Countries
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper overviews the debate on the relationship between the measures of globalization, economic growth and pace of urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty...
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Moderating Urbanization And Managing Growth
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a...
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The Challenges Of Global Environmental Change For Urban Africa
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cities - especially those with substantial poor populations - will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of Global Environmental Change (GEC). As economic dynamos and...
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Globalization And The Emergence Of A Transnational Oligarchy
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites...
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Economic Adversity And Entrepreneurship-Led Growth
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
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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Global Capitalism Theory And The Emergence Of Transnational Elites
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and...
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Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, And Economic Growth In Africa
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. The authors study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of...
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Terms Of Trade And Growth Of Resource Economies
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria. Using...
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Aid And Growth
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and...
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Globalization Crises, Trade, And Development In Vietnam
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises - the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09...
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Exchange Rate Regimes And Trade
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa's exchange rate arrangements. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes measures of currency...
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Growth And Recovery In A Time Of Default
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
International narratives on Argentina's recovery from the crisis of 2001-02 tend to emphasize the role of rising commodity prices and growing demand from China. Argentina is said to have been...
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Growth, Inequality, And Poverty Reduction In Developing Countries
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the...
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Thailand's Development Strategy And Growth Performance
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Thailand's development strategy has been strongly market-oriented and open to trade and investment flows with the rest of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth performance has been...
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China's Trade Imbalances: The Role Of FDI
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has caused considerable diplomatic tensions and tremendous pressure on the Chinese...
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When Unstable, Growth Is Less Pro-poor
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower...
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Export Productivity, Finance, And Economic Growth: Are The Southern Engines Of Growth Different?
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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Concepts And Operationalization Of Pro-poor Growth
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This...
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Indian Economic Growth: Lessons For The Emerging Economies
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Can we 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 growth...
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High-growth Entrepreneurial Firms In Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying...
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China's Economic Growth: Trajectories And Evolving Institutions
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the institutional reason underlying the change in the trajectory of economic growth in post-reform China, and argues that the trajectory of growth was much more normal...
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