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The Development of US Policies directed at stimulating Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David; Aldridge, Taylor - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
This report explores how U.S. federal institutions fund and influence innovation in the knowledge economy context and … having significantly contributed to innovation and growth: (1) the Small Business Innovative Research program (SBIR), (2) the … advanced US innovation is explained in detail. The beginning of the report offers a lens for understanding why and how research …
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Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts, and What Else?
Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper examines the variation across countries and evolution over time of life expectancy. Using historical data going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life expectancy are established. The paper shows that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674292
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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843563
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Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income
Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
Commonly available survey data for developing countries often do not include income or expenditure data. This data limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach to simulate household income based on publicly available Demographic and...
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The Role of Additionality in the EU Cohesion Policies
Brandsma, Andries; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, d'Artis - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
Additionality is one of the key principles driving the functioning of the EU Cohesion Policies (ECP). The present paper studies how additionality affects the distributional effects of the ECP. Using the example of the firm-level investment support, we analyse the role of additionality and...
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Modelling of Agglomeration and Dispersion in RHOMOLO
Comite, Francesco Di; d’Artis Kancs - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
The dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO with endogenous firm location incorporates multiple sources of agglomeration and dispersion. Agglomeration is driven mainly by increasing returns to scale and localised externalities; dispersion by costly trade and imperfect competition. In...
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Understanding Performance in Human Development: A Cross-National Study
Gidwitz, Zachary; Heger, Martin Philipp; Pineda, José; … - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper introduces a new and comprehensive Human Development Index (HDI) trends dataset for 135 countries and 40 years of annual data. We apply this dataset to answer several empirical questions related to the evolution of human development over the last 40 years. The data reveal overall...
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Forecasting the Impacts of Environmental Constraints on Human Development
Hughes, Barry B.; Irfan, Mohammod T.; Moyer, Jonathan D.; … - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
Environmental constraints have always had and will always have important consequences for human development. It has sometimes contributed to or even caused the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints will grow significantly throughout this century raises the concern...
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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about 78 percent of the world´s population. The MPI...
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