Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in BrazilWorld Bank Publications, 2008 - 247 страница The research presented in this volume explains how well-educated workers can interact with physical capital inputs to innovate and add value to processes, products and services, ultimately creating a multiplier-effect on macroeconomic growth. It fills a significant gap in the existing literature by providing a detailed map of the relationship between microeconomic inputs such as health and education services and macroeconomic outputs such as growth. Grounded in economic theory and backed by economic analysis, Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness makes a compelling argument that human c. |
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Страница 154 - ... education. Korea's knowledge strategy of April 2000 evolved into a three-year action plan for five main areas: information infrastructure, human resources, knowledge-based industry, science and technology, and elimination of the digital divide. To implement the action plan, five working groups were formed involving 19 ministries and 17 research institutes, with the Ministiy of Finance and Economy coordinating the implementation.
Страница 155 - Ministiy of Finance and Economy, which puts out an integrated report detailing progress. The mid-term results and adjustments to the plan are sent to the executive director of the National Economic Advisory Council, which reports on the progress of implementation and gives an appraisal of the three-year action plan to its private advisory members.
Страница 154 - Economy, with the intellectual support of the Korean Development Institute, which coordinated the work of a dozen think tanks. A joint World Bank and OECD report provided a framework, outlining concrete steps for reforms in the various policy domains. Close monitoring of progress has...
Страница xviii - UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP................ United Nations Development Programme UNESCO .......... United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization UNGOMAP.
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Страница 236 - Love, JH, B. Ashcroft, and S. Dunlop. 1996. "Corporate Structure, Ownership, and the Likelihood of Innovation. " Applied Economics 28: 737-46. Marshall, JH 2003. "If You Build it Will They Come? The Effects of School Quality on Primary School Attendance in Rural Guatemala.
Страница 41 - There is overlapping coverage among these indices, but the Index of Economic Freedom includes the broadest array of institutional factors determining economic freedom: • Corruption in the judiciary, customs service, and government bureaucracy; • Non-tariff barriers to trade, such as import bans and quotas as well as strict labeling and licensing requirements; • The fiscal burden of government, which encompasses income tax rates, corporate tax rates, and government expenditures as a percent...
Страница 23 - ... management and organizational skills (Solow 2001). In this model, technical progress raises the potential output from a given set of inputs. Empirical measures are then applied to assess the extent to which growth is attributable to increased inputs (more labor and capital) or to the use of inputs in a more productive way. The latter measure, commonly referred to as total factor productivity (TFP), is closely linked to how knowledge is used in production.
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