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The influence of location on the competitiveness of South African industries
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2008 The effects of location on the international competitiveness of South African industries are investigated in this paper. The relationship between location and its competitiveness platform is important during the establishment of new manufacturing plants,
Ewert Kleynhans, Ernst Drewes
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Œconomia, 2020 In the 1970s, in France, a few researchers such as Ignacy Sachs and René Passet elaborated innovative research programmes to have a better understanding of development (North and South) and environmental issues.
Christophe Cassen, Antoine Missemer
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Innovation and Economic Development [PDF]
, 2010 Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labor in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical "first world" activity. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture.
Jan Fagerberg +2 more
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A Journey Through the Theory of Economic Development
Competitio, 2020 The theory of development economics changed signifcantly from the first attempts of defining the concepts in the 50s until nowadays. The contributions to the development theory are at the same time closely related to the historical context of the ...
Lavinia Sidonia Delcea
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Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development Nexus: A Bibliometric Analysis
Energies, 2021 The present research aims to conduct a systemic review on Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development and look for links between the papers published between 2008 and May 2021. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and
Henrique Oliveira, Víctor Moutinho
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Using Randomized Controlled Trials to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics
Annual Review of Economics, 2019 We assess evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor countries. We first document that several studies estimate large positive long-run impacts, but that relatively few existing RCTs ...
Adrien Bouguen +3 more
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Journal of economic surveys (Print), 2018 Despite the popularity of promoting entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for economic development, there is little scientific basis on which policy makers can lean.
J. Hessels, W. Naudé
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Epistemological Problems Of Development Economics
REVISTA PROCESOS DE MERCADO, 2019 This article explores some of the epistemological problems that have been neglected in the history of mainstream development economics. The research is focused on how epistemology influences the conception of develop- ment and the role of the economist ...
V. Espinosa
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Geography and Economic Development [PDF]
International Regional Science Review, 1998 Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choices. Many geographic regions that have not been conducive to modern economic growth have high population densities ...
John Luke Gallup +2 more
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Development Economics and the issues of poverty and social inequalities
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017 Development economics emerged as a separate discipline of economic science in the 1950s but it wasn’t until the 1960s and mid-1970s that it began to draw serious attention.
Ryszard Piasecki
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