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Learning from Asia’s Success Beyond Simplistic ‘Lesson-Making’
Hobday, Mike - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia’s success, if anything? The study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275346
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Ratings since the Asian Crisis
Reisen, Helmut - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033256
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China's Regional Inequality in Innovation Capability, 1995-2004
Fan, Peilei; Wan, Guanghua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation … capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059828
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The Global Economic Crisis after One Year: Is a New Paradigm for Recovery in Developing Countries Emerging?
Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
One year into the global economic crisis, it has become clear that the paradigm for international development has changed irrevocably. With leadership, moral authority and the capacity of the West in international development diminishing, developing countries. recovery and future growth will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004983645
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Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis in Africa
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Africa is the developing region most at risk from the global economic crisis. Its recent strong growth has been interrupted. Already home to the largest number of low-income countries in the world, the region is now likely to experience higher unemployment and poverty; increases in infant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004983646
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The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Developing Countries
Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Following the financial crisis that broke in the US and other Western economies in late 2008, there is now serious concern about its impact on the$
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995234
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The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning Economy: Lessons for Developing Countries
Lundvall, Bengt-Ake - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
.innovation system., .the learning economy. and .learning modes. to analyse the evolution of the Danish model and what can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973339
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009140862
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Engaging with fragile and conflict-affected states: An alternative approach to theory, measurement and practice
Woolcock, Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world.s .fragile and conflict-affected states..beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations.turns on answers to two vexing questions. First, on what defensible basis is any given countr
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076188
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The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?
Roland, Gerald - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490134