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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

human capital and productivity improvements.<P> While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be … education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …

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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...

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Peer Effects Identified Through Social Networks: Evidence from Uruguayan Schools

Melo, Gioia De - Banco de México - 2014

his paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …

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Exporters During the Trade Collapse: The (Surprising) Resiliency of the Small Exporter

Giri, Rahul; Seira, Enrique; Teshima, Kensuke - Banco de México - 2014

How did small exporters fare relative to large exporters during the 2008-09 crisis? Examining the performance of Mexican exporters reveals that the crisis did not make smaller exporters more likely to exit, grow less, or expand less their product line relative to larger exporters. Workhorse...

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The role of product diversification in skill-biased technological change

Nam, Choong Hyun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Since the 1980s, the labour demand has shifted toward more educated workers in the US. The most common explanation is that the productivity of skilled workers has risen relative to the unskilled, but it is not easy to explain why the aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s....

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

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Culture and Development : An Analytical Framework

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...

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Possibility of a Middle Income Trap in China: Assessment in Terms of the Literature on Innovation, Big Business and Inequality

Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397

This paper discusses the possibility of China falling into the so-called middle income trap in terms of three checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as follows: First, China has increasingly become innovative...

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Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth

Attia, Sayed Moawad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to track the development process in Egypt since the early sixties. The paper starts with the broad definition of the development and its goals, then it evolves to the stages of development in Egypt since the first five years plan (1960-1965) passing by the open door...

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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.Â The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.Â For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...

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