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How to set budget caps for competitive grants

De Chiara, Alessandro; Iossa, Elisabetta - 2019

We study how funding agencies should set budget caps for competitive grants. We show that budget caps influence the researchers' submission strategy and, in particular, whether they steer their project choice towards the agencies' favorite projects, and the level of funds they request. The...

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Organisational leadership : how much does it matter?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and … organisational performance, and an increase in worker wellbeing. Specifically, the estimates reveal that an increase in leadership … quality by one standard deviation increases organisational performance and worker job satisfaction by 0.27 and 0.73 standard …

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Industry in Tanzania : performance, prospects, and public policy

Page, John M. - 2016

Tanzania ranks among the leading stars of the 'African growth miracle', but a sector that has been largely absent from the Tanzania success story is industry. Although growth of manufacturing has outpaced economic growth over the past decade, relative to international norms and its ambitious...

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Ethiopia's high growth and its challenges : causes and prospects

Priewe, Jan - 2016

The paper analyses the enigmatic high growth in Ethiopia from 2004 to 2015 (10.9% p.a.) and gauges the prospects for the future. In 2000, Ethiopia was the poorest country on the globe in per capita GDP - a mere 124 USD in current prices. The main finding is that the take-off was driven by...

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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...

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Motorcycle parts and aftermarket industry regional value chain in Southern Africa

Mtanga, Sithembiso; McCamel, Richard - 2019

This paper provides an overview of the structure, key functions, and characteristics of the motorcycle parts and aftermarket industries in Southern Africa in order to identify challenges to and opportunities for growth in these industries. The research examines the end markets and utilization of...

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South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana

Smith, Michael Nassen; Osborne, Carilee; Moola, Zunaid; … - 2019

We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on...

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Key features of the first phase of the national cluster program in Russia

Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk - 2013

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...

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The middle-income trap and manufacturing transformation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) : Asian experience and the PRC's industrial policy orientation

Huang, Qunhui; Liu, Gang; He, Jun; Jiang, Feitao; … - 2017

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been undergoing marvelous industrialization and manufacturing development in the past decades, which has promoted its fast economic growth and has reached a level of middle-income in recent years. It is widely accepted that the PRC's status as the...

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Industrial clusters : the case for Special Economic Zones in Africa

Newman, Carol; Page, John M. - African Development Bank - 2017

recommendations to improve SEZs performance. …

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