This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice for governments and development partners on reducing poverty...

Chile is increasingly looking to innovation as a pillar of its competitiveness and an engine of growth to close the income gap with the Organization for...

Kenya s economy has undergone a significant process of structural transformation over the last decade. Since 2002, the economy has shown an...

This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the...

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

Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay...

Sustained improvements in living standards depend on broad-based economic growth. This will only take place when firms improve worker productivity by...

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This...

World Bank Group management welcomes Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) review of innovation and entrepreneurship. The global financial crisis required...

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...

Russia's exports became further dominated by petroleum and natural gas over the last decade. The sector experienced double-digit annual export growth in...

This policy note provides a detailed assessment of Bulgaria's innovative capacity and offers policy recommendations to increase the impact of science and...

China has made remarkable gains in industrialization and development. Over the past three decades, it has maintained gross domestic product (GDP)...

As the global stock of ideas expands and diffuses across and within countries, technological learning is poised to become an even more important...

Knowledge has always been an essential force in economic development. Chapter one, describes the knowledge revolution, which is leading us into a...

The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has...

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...

These proceedings highlight the key findings and public policy lessons that emerged from the Knowledge Economy Forum VII (KEF VII) on Technology...

Ukraine has untapped growth potential. Ukraine has one of the most fertile agricultural lands in the world, an attractive geographical location in...