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Reflecting Change: The Second Edition of ‘From Poverty to Power’
Duncan Green Updating a book on contemporary events can be unnerving. In the intervening years, events and new thinking combine to expose the...
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New technologies create opportunitiesThis paper argues that new technologies—for communication, such as mobile phones and the internet, but also for manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and transport—have the potential to bridge many of the productivity gaps between sub-Saharan Africa...
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Learning to Export and Learning by ExportingIn this study, we investigate the relationship between exporting and firm performance using a longer panel dataset of Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996−2009. We test two hypotheses regarding exporting: selection into exporting versus...
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Behavioral DesignSuccessful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to...
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Firm-level Competitiveness and Technology in Vietnam :This report summarizes information from the 2012 round of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS), collaboratively developed by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO), and the...
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Firm-level Competitiveness and Technology in Vietnam (in Vietnamese) :This report summarizes information from the 2012 round of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS), collaboratively developed by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO), and the...
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Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South AfricaSouth Africa hopes to expand wind and solar power. Success depends on how and where to deploy the technologies. This study develops a 10-year database of expected power generation for these technologies across South Africa. A power system model...
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Indo-Sri Lanka Economic CooperationThe emerging trends in global trading patterns point to the increasing role and significance of regional economic cooperation in promoting the process of growth and development. The formation of the South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation...
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Firm-Level Competitiveness and Technology in Vietnam :This report is based on a survey module incorporated into the 2009 Vietnam Enterprise Survey conducted by the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam in 2010.1. The survey module was specifically designed by the Development Economics Research...
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Globalization, Technology Transfer, and Skill Accumulation in Low-Income CountriesGlobalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in...
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Financing the New EconomyThis paper examines the financial sector preconditions for the successful development of a high technology sector. It argues that there is a close relation between types of activities undertaken in different countries and their institutional...
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Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving ForcesUnderstanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine...
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Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service IndustriesThis paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up–to–date survey that provides...
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Productivity measurement in Swedish departments of gynecology and obstetricsThe rapid growth of public spending and the need to assess its impact on the welfare system has made the studies of productivity in the public sector an important subject. This paper is concerned with the specification and estimation of total factor...
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An Assessment of a Village Development Programme in MozambiqueThe programme did lead participating households to use improved seeds. Food consumption scores did not improve after the programme. However during the programme participating households moved to more sustainable strategies to cope with food shortages...
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Behavioral DesignPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
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Brazil’s Growth PerformancePart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in KenyaPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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Globalization, Technology and Income InequalityPart of Book Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization
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Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8
This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development...
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Does Lack of Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Retard Economic Growth in Africa?This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross-country regressions...
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Comparing the development of agricultural technology and information technology in rural VietnamThis paper presents a descriptive analysis on the ownership of different types of technology—both agricultural machinery and information technology—within households in rural areas of Vietnam. We find that there has been little development in the...
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Selective Policies for Export PromotionPart of Book Non-Traditional Export Promotion in Africa
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Innovations, High-Tech Trade and Industrial DevelopmentPart of Book Advancing Development
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The Weightless Economy in Economic DevelopmentPart of Book Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
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