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Innovation at the World Bank : selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005

Grawe, Roger - 2013

-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World … toolkit as key factors influencing the climate for innovation. The interaction and impact of these factors are illustrated …

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European transition at twenty : assessing progress in countries and sectors

Berglöf, Erik; Bruynooghe, Lise; Harmgart, Heike; … - 2010

This study gauges the status of transition in the formerly centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using a broad approach that compares countries with respect to their business environment, competition, and managerial practices; and assesses transition progress at the...

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Biofuels technology : a look forward

Stafford, William; Lotter, Adrian; Brent, Alan; Von … - 2017

This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....

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Global trends in the political economy of smart grids : a tailored perspective on 'smart' for grids in transition

Eid, Cherrelle; Hakvoort, Rudi; Jong, W. Martin de - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016

The global transition towards sustainable, secure, and affordable electricity supply is driving changes in the consumption, production, and transportation of electricity. This paper shows the different policy aims that are promoted with smart grids in Europe, the United States, and China. In all...

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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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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...

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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?

Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011

government and political stability are important for the growth performance of African countries. -- growth ; innovation …

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Learning from Asia's success beyond simplistic 'lesson-making'

Hobday, Michael - 2011

Asian ones. Development ultimately requires, as it did across Asia, significant innovation and creativity in business … organization, technology, wider institutional structures, and government policies. -- Asia ; innovation ; lessons ; economic …

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Importance of technological innovation for SME growth : evidence from India

Hillemane, Bala Subrahmanya Mungila; Mathirajan, M.; … - 2010

, it probes the relationship between innovation and growth of SMEs by (i) estimating a correlation between innovation sales … and sales growth, (ii) calculating innovation sales for high, medium, and low growth innovative SMEs and doing a one …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …

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The determinants of domestic saving in Kenya

Musamali, Rodgers; Mutia, Cecilia; Ngugi, Rose W. - 2022

The savings-growth nexus is widely acknowledged, both in policy and in the literature. But Kenya's numerous policy initiatives to encourage savings mobilization are yet to yield the expected outcomes. This paper identifies the key drivers of domestic saving in Kenya, exploiting fintech as an...

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