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Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level
Full text linkBuilding Knowledge-Based Economies in Africa: A Systematic Review of Policies and Strategies
Get PDFCompared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study systematically reviews the literature in order to highlight the policies and strategies with which African countries can accelerate their current drive towards building knowledge-based economies. These are discussed in terms of three pillars of the World Bank’s knowledge economy framework. They are the indices for: (i) education and skilled population, (ii) information and communication technology and (iii) economic incentives and institutional regime
Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe: are social capital and geographical proximity key determinants?
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Heritage Language Labor Market Returns: The Importance of Speaker Density at the State Level
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The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Fostering Industry Clusters in Peripheral Regions: Strategies, Actors and Outcomes
No full textThe Use (and Abuse) of Meta-Analysis in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Assessment
No full textMeta-analysis, Environmental valuation, Benefit transfer, Econometric modeling, C5, Q2, Q51,
