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In early 2010, Zimbabwe's Minister of Public Service requested Bank support for a public administration review to provide analytical support and technical assistance to identify the key issues to restore the quality of public administration in Zimbabwe. This policy note presents an initial...
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This Note on public management of pension funds concludes that publicly-managed pension reserves are often used to finance non-pension policy. Public pension fund managers tend to invest based on objectives unrelated to pension provision. These include social and economically target investments...
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The World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions and leads …
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growth. The author argues that Bangalore has serious innovation challenges with weak university-industry linkages, lack of … the commercial IT industry. To strengthen Bangalore's and India's innovation system, the Indian business model must be …
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"Fujita and Hill compare and contrast Tokyo's innovation structure with the industrial districts model and the …, the national system of innovation, and the historical genesis of Tokyo in Japan's political economy. They find that the … Tokyo model of innovation will continue to evolve with the changing external environment, but fundamentally retain its main …
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not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …
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A coordinated effort to develop a regional research and development (R and D) strategy for innovation was launched by … WB regional R and D strategy for innovation technical assistance (RIS-TA). The strategy aims to strengthen the region … area (ERA) and innovation union. This report is organized as follows: section one gives introduction; section two gives …
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This study was done at an opportune time in Sri Lanka's history: with end of the war there is hope for the country's peace, prosperity, and growth. To encourage economic growth, this study examines how high technology can drive competitiveness in key export-oriented industries and help build a...
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(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …
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