Rapid and consistent economic growth of Ethiopia over the past decade has contributed to reducing the number of people living in poverty. The Government...

Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries...

This report stats that income gaps among countries are largely explained by differences in productivity. By raising the capital/labor ratio and rapidly...

During the 1990s, foreign direct investment in producer service sectors in Latin America was massive. Such investment may increase the quality of...

This study analyzes the extent of knowledge and technology absorption for firms in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), as well as the factors that influence...

In January 2008, the Turkish Government requested the World Bank to jointly undertake an assessment of its National Innovation System (NIS) in order to...

This book seeks to understand how firms in southern Africa absorb technology and how policy makers can hurry the process along. It identifies channels of...

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights negotiated in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and...

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...

This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were...