The 7th Globelics International Conference
The 7th Globelics International Conference, Dakar, 6 - 8 October 2009
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Transforming Africa: From Natural Resource Dependence to Sustainable Growth and Development. What Can Research Do?
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The power of remittances on the prevalence of child labor
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This article examines the relationship between migrants’ remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help ... -
An empirical analysis of TFP gains in the agricultural crop-sub-sector of NWFP using Malmquist Index approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This paper investigates the total factor productivity (TFP) performance of NWFP agriculture crop subsector from 1970 to 2004. It identifies the sources of growth of TFP growth and assesses TFP growth changes in agriculture ... -
Poverty trap and public capital
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)The paper develops a growth model of multiple equilibria. In the model, poverty trap is caused by the presence of negative externalities - side effects - during an economy’s take off. The role of growth-maximizing public ... -
Does social capital determine poverty? Evidence from Cameroon household survey
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This paper has examined the effect of social capital on household poverty using the 2001 Cameroon household survey. We rely on three indicators for social capital – network membership, decision making index and network ... -
Access to information: The dilemma for rural community development in Africa
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)The provision of information services in Africa has been dispersed and access to various information services has become more difficult; the principal victims of these developments have been rural people without having any ... -
The copying paradox: Why converging policies but diverging capacities development in Eastern European Innovation Systems?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)There seems to be almost decade long consensus on what are the key problems in innovations systems in Eastern European (EE) countries.2 The consensus runs through social scientists inand outside Eastern Europe to official ... -
Enhancing the Role of Knowledge and Innovation for Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)The broad aim of this study is to improve our understanding of the nature, extent and importance of commercialisation of knowledge in developing countries. The commercialisation of “new” knowledge, whether generated locally ... -
Bridging innovation system research and development studies: challenges and research opportunities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This paper links innovation system analysis to economic development. Both fields are young and interdisciplinary. The origins of research on innovation systems goes back to the early 1980s (Freeman 1982, Lundvall 1985, ... -
…to each according to his (or her) needs: where are the poor in innovation studies?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This paper first reviews major recent works broadly dedicated to the role innovation plays in development and discusses possible reasons for the marginal role accorded low-income countries. It then reports insights from a ... -
Opening the black box of design: the importance of innovation processes within clothing sector
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Firm-Level Evidence on Innovation in Spain
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)Using a new database based on a survey on innovation this paper aims at iden tifying the determinants of firms' R&D investment and innovation decisions. The descriptive statistics confirm the evidence that the percentage ... -
Structural transformation of Portuguese exports and the role of foreign direct investment: some descriptive analysis for the period 1990-2005
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)In this paper we use a recent measure of the “income level of a country’s exports” proposed by Hausmann et al. (2007) to characterize the structure of the Portuguese export basket, its recent evolution and the role of FDI ... -
MNEs and Export Spillovers: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)The attraction of foreign MNEs have been seen mainly from the point of view of the effects related directly to productivity of local firms. Instead a new strand of literature has deepened the issue focusing on the export ... -
Micro credit, empowerment and diversion of loan use
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)Micro credit or extending small loans for income generating activities to the poor, particularly women in predominantly developing countries has become one of the most popular development strategies of the last few years. ... -
Credit Constraints under Interaction of Supply Rationing and Demand Depression: Evidence from Rural Households in China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)This paper analyzes the credit demand depression phenomenon resulting from long-term institutional supply rationing. Under the interaction between imperfect formal credit system and rural households’ risk aversion behavior, ... -
Microfinance, Social Capital and Households Access to Credit: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)An irony observed in microfinance these days is its great preference for savings products rather than credit products for households. For some authors, this phenomenon is explained by the fact that microfinance’s products ... -
A Lesson of Success in Microfinance in Africa: the Experience of ACSI in Ethiopia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)ACSI (Amhara Credit and Savings Institution) is one of the largest MFIs that are found in the world. ACSI won a number of global microfinance awards and is emerging as the most efficient and sustainable MFI in Africa. This ... -
Entrepreneurship and National System of Innovation : What is missing in Turkey?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a ... -
Social Capability Deficits and Productivity Behaviour of African Entrepreneurs: Evidence From Lesotho Garment Producers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)Despite attempts to induce regional competitiveness in industrial manufactures, poor productivity performances continue to plague the ability of African entrepreneurs to compete successfully in international markets. While ...
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