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The political economy of innovation; an institutional analysis of industrial policy and development in Brazil

Menezes, Jose H. V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

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National innovation rates: the evidence for/against domestic institutions

Taylor, Mark Zachary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …

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Knowledge-based economies and the institutional environment

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

economic development. Knowledge-based economies are founded on increasing specialization, research, innovation and learning … training, innovation, information infrastructure, the institutional regime. This contribution will focus mainly on one of those …

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Diversification and development of the UAE’s economy

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...

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Contraintes institutionnelles et règlementaires et le secteur informel à Djibouti

Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This research seeks to detect the institutional and regulatory constraints that limit the development of informal units in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption, going right) in regulation created transaction costs...

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Trade Policies, Investment Climate,and Exports

Seker, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....

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Second generation governance indicators

Knack, Stephen; Kugler, Mark; Manning, Nick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper summarizes progress made in a DfID-funded World Bank initiative to test and develop policy-relevant, politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two major components involved in the process of generating indicators that are practical means of reform....

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Les hawalas : les systèmes informels de transfert des fonds

Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The informal systems of transfer of funds (hawalas) arouse an increased interest on behalf of the authorities concerned to regulate them but also among the researchers who try to analyze how they operate for better appreciating of their macroeconomic impact. These institutions are primarily used...

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Institutions: top down or bottom up?

Easterly, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A large research program in economics has established a persuasive link between institutions and economic development. But what does this imply for development policymaking? Can a political leader or aid agency seeking to promote development readily change institutions? This article starts off...

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