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Can domestic institutions affect exports and innovation? : mediation effects of institutional quality on manufacturing sector exports and innovation in developing countries

Koswatta, Achinthya - 2022

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …

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Innovation efforts in developing countries : the case of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises

Son Thi Kim Le - 2019

The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The … innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates … innovation processes in developing countries, especially the relationship between innovation efforts and outcomes. Instead of …

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Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?

Wandaogo, Abdoul-Akim; Sawadogo, Fayçal; Lastunen, Jesse - 2022

Developing countries need to raise sufficient tax revenue to finance development. Revenue mobilization is often hampered by limited tax compliance, weak institutions, and technical problems with tax collection. One solution to these challenges is person-to-government (P2G) mobile phone payments,...

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Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries : a literature review and new evidence

Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Mohamed … - 2017

Many adolescent girls in low-income countries face the challenge of early pregnancy and lifelong dependence upon family and partners. In this paper, we review the literature on field interventions aimed at reducing early pregnancies in low-income countries and report from a randomized control...

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2019

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...

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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - 2019

Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility. This paper focuses on what we know about these possible links in low- and middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of...

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Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries : the statistical tendencies

Roe, Alan; Dodd, Samantha - 2017

This paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies. It examines the scale of the current dependence of low- and middle-income economies on both types of extractive...

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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective...

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Aid, growth, and development : have we come full circle?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2010

The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth literature and, taking inspiration from the program...

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