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Over the last two decades, successive governments and business leaders in the former Yugoslav Republic of (FYR) Macedonia have been actively working to transform the country's economy and put it on a higher, technology-based, growth trajectory. For a small, landlocked country with a limited...
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governing foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. Since legal and regulatory frameworks are constantly evolving, a cut …
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Poland differ in technology sophistication in both general business and sector-specific functions but, to a large extent …-specific technologies. In the context of sector-specific technologies, it is worth noting that the level of sophistication differs between …
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This report provides detailed knowledge on firm-level technology sophistication in Poland, and, by identifying the main … approach to measuring technology sophistication, the structure of the Technology Adoption Survey, and its implementation in … skills, and firms' capabilities. It also investigates heterogeneity in technology sophistication across firms with different …
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This collection of papers on different aspects and examples of participatory development represents some of the many outputs from a recent Bankwide learning process on participatory development. The concept of participation is defined as "a process through which stakeholders influence and share...
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This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. The review presents an...
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The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1]. While the GDP growth rate has proven resilient in recent years, declining oil and gas output, coupled with economic shocks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, havedented...
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Despite sustained economic growth over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive challenges and significant gaps in many development outcomes. Although poverty has been declining, a recent report estimates that over two-fifths of the African population was poor in 2012. Nearly...
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This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
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Morocco has steered significant resources towards large investments in economic sectors identified as strategic to growth, and for increased productivity and value addition. Despite Morocco's strikingly high investment rate, one of the highest in the world at an average of thirty-four percent of...
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