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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, … - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739171
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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018
The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914179
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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Measuring firm-level innovation using short questionnaires : evidence from an experiment
Cirera, Xavier; Muzi, Silvia - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554198
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Developing expenditure questions : findings from R2 cognitive testing
D'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012
The Nuffield Foundation has funded a collaborative research team from NatCen Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Oxford and Cambridge Universities to develop a standard question or questions designed to capture household spending. This is because household spending can be an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634285
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Developing expenditure questions : findings from R1 cognitive testing
d'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012
Currently there is no established way to measure expenditure in the context of a general purpose survey. Therefore … collaborators from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, are looking at how best to measure expenditure in a social survey context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634288
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Developing expenditure questions : findings from focus groups
d'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012
Currently there is no established way to measure expenditure in the context of a general purpose survey. Therefore … collaborators from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, are looking at how best to measure expenditure in a social survey context … what issues people may have in reporting household expenditure in a social survey context. The information collected in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634293
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Business practices in small firms in developing countries
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349373