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Fintech and domestic savings: A perfect match coming true in sub-Saharan Africa
Financial technology (FinTech) is a major force disrupting the structure of financial services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and enabling access of unbanked people to financial services...
Technological innovations Domestic savings TechnologyWorking Paper
Diffusion of agricultural innovations in Guinea-Bissau: From learning to doingThis paper analyses the pathways of technology diffusion through social networks, following the experimental introduction of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau...
Agriculture Technology Knowledge diffusionJournal Article
Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: the role of management standards and innovationUsing a rich panel dataset of small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) active in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management st...
Management standards ISO certification Technological innovationsWorking Paper
A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian dramaThis paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama...
Growth Political economy CorruptionWorking Paper
Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovationUsing a rich panel dataset of SMEs active in the manufacturing sector in Vietnam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification...
Management standards ISO certification Technological innovationsJournal Article
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth LabourJournal Article
Labor-use efficiency in Tunisian manufacturing industriesThis paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over a period of 25 years, from 1971 to 1996...
Commercial policy Labour demand Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
The political economy of energy innovationThis paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient te...
Environmental policy Political science Renewable energyWorking Paper
Industrial policy, learning, and developmentIndustrial policies have played an important role in successful development. Through these policies, governments intervene in the market’s sectoral allocation of resources and choice of technologies...
Industrial policy Technological innovationsJournal Article
Modeling Fuel Choice among Households in Northern CameroonPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
Households Renewable energy Technological innovationsBlog
Celebrating 30 years of research for development
The celebration of the 30 th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead...
Economic development Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Gross national productWorking Paper
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change, and Employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth LabourBook Chapter
Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Development in AfricaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...
Economic development Industrial policy IndustrializationJournal Article
Technology Transfers, Foreign Investment and Productivity SpilloversThis paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of host country domestic firms...
Foreign investments Productivity Technological innovationsBook Chapter
Does Lack of Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Retard Economic Growth in Africa?This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth...
Economic development Technological innovations Management (Technological innovations)