Palm Inc was the world''s largest supplier of personal digital assistants (PDA''s). The company was troubled by the declining annual shipments of its products, which many analysts felt were primarily due to their slow technological obsolescence and increasing popularity of converged mobile...

India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive...

The UN 2030 Agenda is a global agenda which brings nations together to address global challenges for sustainable development. It is increasingly expected for bilateral and multilateral development projects and programmes in sub-Saharan Africa to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

This paper proposes that Tourism Activities can be considered as a technological hub. We will discuss the implementation of the Value Chains Framework in the analysis of the products, services and infrastructure re- lated to tourism activities. The main idea consists of presenting an in-...

The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental...

Indonesia as a country with a Muslim population reaching 87.18% has the potential to develop Muslim-friendly tourism. In this study, observations were made in two provinces, namely Banten Province and East Java Province with the majority of the Muslim population. This study aims to obtain an...

This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...

This article conducts a series of comparison of development scenarios and development strategies among Korea, Vietnam and the mainland China. The research finds that although the take-off periods differ for the three countries there are some similarities in the strategies and successes they...

This study analyses how strengths and weaknesses of economic, societal, political and environmental structures played out during the Covid-19 crisis in Africa since March 2020. Its main aim is to improve evidence on the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on African countries and, based...

This report, initiated at the request of His Excellency President Alassane Ouattara to Hafez M. H. Ghanem, the World Bank Group Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, is the first country application of the new regional strategy, Supporting Africa's Transformation. Albert...

Technological Transformation -- Technology and Economic Growth -- Structure and Transformation -- Emerging Industries Under Globalization -- Industrial Transformation and Reconstruction -- China's High-Tech Industry and Global Industrial -- Challenges Faced by China's High-Tech Industry --...

This discussion paper addresses policy learning and policy implementation in China since about 2006. In particular, the potential change of research and innovation policy under Xi Jinping is discussed, as well as core policies and strategies to further improve the Chinese innovation system and...

This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...

Development models and policies and their financing strategies have started to take an encouraging tack in the winds of change. A Western hegemonic, single-track, outside-in approach to development models and financing them, has been challenged by new a multipolar, multi-model, multi-instrument,...

The goal of this paper is to access the state, specify trends, compare with other EU states, and identify intervention needs of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) in Bulgaria, and assist policy formation for the next programing period. Modern scientific approaches of SWOT,...

This discussion paper addresses policy learning and policy implementation in China since about 2006. In particular, the potential change of research and innovation policy under Xi Jinping is discussed, as well as core policies and strategies to further improve the Chinese innovation system and...

"Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences' prepared by the international team of authors representing leading universities from different parts of the world, reveals various aspects of the theory of noonomy, developed by...

Introduction /Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi --Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos /Adebisi Alade --Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity /Nick T. C. Lu --Maintaining...

Eastern Caribbean countries enjoy rich natural endowments and have achieved significant economic development. Throughout the last decades, they have also been confronted with a number of rising economic, social and environmental challenges. To help them tackle these, and accelerate their...

A revitalization and development of old awqāf could generate notable revenues to finance social expenditures (although probably less than very optimistic estimates suggest). Awqāf should be conceived as institutions of the civil society, but they are actually managed by ministries or state...

Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit - i.e. the provision of...