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Industry policy, technological change, and the state
Srinivas, Smita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Industrial policy and innovation policies need to be strongly revitalized and focused on LDC development. Given the concentration of several LDCs in forestry, fisheries, mining, agricultural commodities, and oil, the task of these revitalized industrial policies is to support locally relevant...
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Review of the role of government in East Asian economic development, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997, Aoki, Kim and Okuno - Fujiwara (editors)
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This is an important and ambitious book but its timing could not be more unfortunate. It is the result of a two year research project co-sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the World Bank and by the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. The contributors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110023
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The Governance of Knowledge: Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia
Purwaningrum, Farah; Evers, Hans-Dieter; Ariff Lim, Syamimi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper revisits the concept of knowledge governance by drawing on the experience of building knowledge clusters in two countries; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. It explores the strategies by which a country may take up the governance of knowledge, in the context of avoiding the knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110407
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A very preliminary survey on growth and development
Wang, Chan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Growth and development has always spurred outpouring of research. This paper offers a very preliminary survey of recent literature in the field.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111411
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"Economic Growth and the Natural World"
Wesson, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This is a survey of some ideas relating to the theory of economic growth and how economic growth impacts the natural world.
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular...
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Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?
Yang, Jingjing; Khalil, Sana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be significantly explained by R&D manpower and...
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Agricultural Technology Development Agency (ATMA): A Study of its Impact in Pilot Districts in Bihar, India
Singh, K.M.; Meena, M.S.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the mid-1990s, the Government of India and the World Bank began exploring new approaches to extension that would … June 2005. As a follow up on the success of ATMA model under ITD component of NATP the Govt. of India has initiated a new … Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) in all 588 rural districts in India. The ATMAs are expected to support the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257981
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Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA): A Study of its Impact in Pilot Districts in Bihar, India
Singh, K.M.; Meena, M.S.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the mid-1990s, the Government of India and the World Bank began exploring new approaches to extension that would … June 2005. As a follow up on the success of ATMA model under ITD component of NATP the Govt. of India has initiated a new … Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) in all 588 rural districts in India. The ATMAs are expected to support the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258736
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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