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The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications...
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries... -
Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship -- experimental evidenc...
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth... -
The Additionality Impact of a Matching Grant Program for Small Firms: Experim...
Matching grants are one of the most common types of private sector development programs used in developing countries. But government subsidies to private... -
Green growth, technology and innovation
The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key... -
Learning from the Experiments That Never Happened : Lessons from Trying to Co...
Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading,... -
Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of ...
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay... -
Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence
The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a... -
The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This... -
Korea and the BICs (Brazil, India and China) : Catching Up Experiences
This paper tests a neo-Schumpeterian model with industry-level data to analyze how Brazil, India, and China are catching up with South Korea s... -
The Impact of Government Support on Firm R&D Investments : A Meta-Analysis
This paper applies meta-analysis techniques to a sample of 37 studies published during 2004-2011. These papers assess the impact of direct... -
Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is... -
Public and Private Investments in Innovation Capabilities : Structural Transf...
This paper assembles novel data on the Chilean wine industry to investigate the role of investments in knowledge capital on sales growth in domestic and... -
Toward an Innovation Policy for Pakistan
This policy paper aims to assist policy makers, as they develop the Pakistan Innovation Policy, with an independent assessment of where Pakistan stands... -
What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? Local Industrial Structures an...
Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent in India. What explains these... -
Why Don't Poor Countries Do R&D?
Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than... -
Money or Ideas? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rura...
This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were... -
Commercialization of Publicly Funded Research and Development in Russia : Sca...
This paper explores fundamental issues affecting technology commercialization of publicly funded research and development (R&D) in the Russian...
