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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via … education practices that enrich student learning, helping children to reach their highest potential in some countries, cultural …
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A Divergent Path of Industrial Upgrading: Emergence and Evolution of the Mobile Handset Industry in China
Imai, Ken'ichi; Shiu, Jingming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than 40 percent of the current world production. While export growth has been overwhelmingly led by multi-national corporations (MNCs), increasingly fierce competition in the domestic...
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Factors predicting small and medium-sized enterprises' success
Tangkittipaporn, Jiraporn - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 2 (2010) 1, pp. 113-126
The study obtaining from a sample of 338 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) showed that Chinese SME … encouragement for financial assistance, international business incentives, community education and training. …
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The Role of Education in Economic Growth through the Sectoral Reallocation of Labor
Lee, Soohyung - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
raises the probability of a worker obtaining a non-agricultural job. To extract the causal effect of education, I use the … the CR; as a result of this ideology, the policies of this period promoted mass education among underserved groups … contribute to the economic growth literature by testing whether and to what extent education causes growth. Within this research …
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also … document : la libéralisation du secteur financier ; renforcer la concurrence sur les marchés des biens et services ; l’éducation …
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Patterns of China's industrialization: Concentration, specialization, and clustering
Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 3, pp. 593-612
This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi-dimensional measures on industrial concentration, regional specialization, and clustering based on census data at the firm level in 1995 and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid...
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Domestic Market-based Industrial Cluster Development in Modern China
Ding, Ke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
China’s huge domestic market is constantly expanding, and is low-end demand oriented and highly dispersed. The domestic market-based development of China’s industrial cluster, however, is not only a quantitative expansion, but has also been accompanied with remarkable qualitative...
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From Export Promotion To Import Substitution; Comparative Experience of China and Mexico
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Pizarro, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Abstract Both Mexico and China have started export orientation in some industries, through assembly operations, based on imported inputs a couple of decades ago. The literature on industrialization, has discussed the questions of import substitutions and outward-orientation mainly as alternative...
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EU and China, Competitors and Partners in Innovation and High-Tech Products Trade International Course
Stanculescu, Ecaterina - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 174-178
This article intends to present the up-to-date situation of EU and China in the innovation activity and the complementarities and cooperation between them. We analyze also, the evolution in one of the most suggestive results of the innovation, i.e. the international trade with medium and...
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Sustainable effects of technological progress and trade liberalization
Shachmurove, Yochanan; Spiegel, Uriel - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 956-964
This paper examines the controversy involving international trade by employing a simple model. It analyzes the effects of unilateral technological improvements in one entity on the welfare of that entity and its trading partners. Improvements in one country are irreversible and lead to...
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