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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...

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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper examines the industrial performance indicators and the relationships between skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new growth literature, concerning the correlation...

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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan

Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

leads to poor provision of training; low skill levels; skills mismatch; low transfer of knowledge/external schooling effect … of networks systems and collaboration between universities and industry/firms, low transfer of knowledge and a lack of … entrepreneur perspective. We support our third hypothesis that the transfer of knowledge/external schooling effects is successful …

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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...

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Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Introduction

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume,* we build on Baumol’s (1990) framework to categorize, catalog, and classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel entrepreneurial supply into productive or...

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Entrepreneurship and Institutions

Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with other factors of production in search of economic rents. The institutional setup is argued to determine both the supply and direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key...

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