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Financing Green Growth in a Resource-constrained World
This report highlights promising examples of successful collaborations. These examples offer innovative financing mechanisms and new models for collaborative innovation and engagement of multistakeholder communities Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Report/Paper
Tagged Economic Growth, Energy, Enviroment, Green, sustainability
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Going Green: Why Asia is Moving Toward a Green Model of Economic Growth
The latest issue of ADB’s quarterly magazine explores the concept of green growth: the embracing of environmentally sound and sustainable policies with the need to maintain high economic growth Continue reading
Posted in Quality of life, Report/Paper
Tagged Asia, development, Economic Growth, Enviroment, sustainability
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mGovernment – Mobile Technologies for Responsive Governments and Connected Societies
This report aims to foster a better understanding of how to leverage the economic and social impacts of the use of mobile technologies and applications to enable ubiquitous governments, sustain public sector innovation and transform public service delivery Continue reading
World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012
WESP provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and some key global economic policy and development issues Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Report/Paper
Tagged Economic Growth, Innovation, LDC, United Nations
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Innovation barriers for small biotech, ICT and clean tech firms: Coping with knowledge leakage and legitimacy deficits
Based on a panel study of 196 SMEs this paper shows that biotech, ICT and clean tech firms choose different strategies to deal with knowledge leakage and legitimacy deficits Continue reading
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Tagged Biotech, Clean Tech, Economic Growth, ICT, SMEs
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Why broadband does not always have an impact on economic growth?
A growing number of studies have linked broadband diffusion to economic growth. The World Bank’s and infoDev’s Broadband Strategies Handbook includes a reference of some of these studies… Continue reading
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Tagged Broadband, Economic Growth, infoDev, World Bank
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Barriers to growth: The views of high-growth and potential high-growth businesses
The research summary provides new evidence on the obstacles that fast-growing UK businesses. Report by NESTA Continue reading
Asia Pacific Mobile Observatory 2011: Driving Economic and Social Development through Mobile Broadband
This year’s report focuses especially on the positive economic and social impact of mobile broadband, which is having a transformative effect across Asia Pacific Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, development, Economic Growth, GSM, mobile
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The impact of 4G technology on commercial interactions, economic growth & U.S. competitiveness
To maintain the mobile broadband lead the U.S. achieved and to bolster the nation’s economic recovery, it will be important for the USA to compete effectively in the global race to deploy 4G networks Continue reading
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Microfinance and Policy Implications
This paper revisits the issue of systemic risk of MFIs, and finds that contrary to the evidence before the crisis… Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, Global Financial Crisis, IMF, MFI, Microfinance
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