This chapter provides an overview of African countries’ efforts to measure innovation activity and apply innovation data for policy. The chapter illustrates how existing innovation indicators were developed in Africa since the launch of the ASTII initiative in 2007 and how they are used to...

AbstractInput Output Analysis is a powerful tool to formally analyze the economics of service production in business terms. Through its methodology, it is able to integrate different approaches from other disciplines and address their shortcomings in terms of production theory.This review paper...

Input Output Analysis is a powerful tool to formally analyze the economics of service production in business terms. Through its methodology, it is able to integrate different approaches from other disciplines and address their shortcomings in terms of production theory. This review paper...

The ABS Research team at Investment Bank X has asked the new summer intern to come up with an innovative way to forecast Conditional Prepayment Rates (CPR). The intern has some knowledge about interest rates models and decides to apply the same approach to model CPR with the goal of testing the...

Agricultural sustainability (AS) is a topic that has been evolving since the mid-20th century. However, there is still not a universally accepted method for its measurement. Strong data requirements are a major obstacle to developing a useful farm level sustainability index. We propose using...