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The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs
Do cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design f...
Spurring Innovation-Led Growth in Argentina
Anew, innovation-led growth model would enable Argentina to increase economic stability and achieve stronger shared prosperity. Argentina can escape boom-and-bust cycles and accelerate its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic with an innovation-driven economy that, in addition to factor accumulation, fuels higher productivity growth across all its sectors. Such a growth model should build on Argentina’s strengths in human capital, research, and firm-level capabilities, which would help diversify the economy and make it more inclusive and less susceptible to external shocks, providing the country with a stronger buffer at times of uncertainty. Despite the volatility of the past few decades, ...
La política de innovación en América Latina y el Caribe
Este libro desea reflejar el paso de la política de innovación en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) hacia una etapa de creciente sofisticación y de mayor impacto sobre el desarrollo. Una evolución como ésta es en parte producto de la transformación que las mismas economías y la actividad empresarial están atravesando en la región, y es también eco de las transformaciones económicas y tecnológicas globales. El hilo conductor de la publicación reside en abordar cómo y por qué la política de innovación ha comenzado a incursionar en ámbitos que hasta ahora han estado relativamente ausentes del radar de los encargados de la toma de decisiones de los sectores público y privado d...
Rethinking Productive Development
Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world. Rethinking Productive Development examines the market failures impeding transformation and the government failures that may make the policy remedies worse than the market illness. To address market failures, the authors propose a simple conceptual framework based on the scope and nature of the policy approach. They then systematically analyze country policies through this lens in key areas such as innovation, new firms, financing, human capital, and internationalization to show the power of this way of thinking. Still, the book warns that policymakers cannot be sure what the right policy interventions are and must set up a process to discover them that calls for public-private collaboration. Recognizing that the risk of capture needs to be checked and that even the best policies will fail without the technical, organizational, and political capacity to implement them, the book concludes with ideas on how to design institutions fostering the right incentives and how to grow public sector capabilities over time.
The Politics of Technological Progress
Why are some countries richer than others and why do some economies grow more rapidly? The Politics of Technological Progress answers these vital questions by highlighting the importance of technological progress for sustained economic development. The author also explains why some countries exhibit faster technological progress than others. Armed with a wealth of cross-national empirical evidence, Professor Simmons stresses the importance of properly constructed political parties for establishing an environment conducive to technological progress. 'Well-institutionalized' ruling parties are essential for technological progress, he argues, because only in such parties are time horizons long enough for governments to accept the deferred returns that are an inherent feature of government efforts to encourage innovation and technology adoption in the economy.
Observado el Sistemas Colombiano de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación: sus actores y sus productos
Observado el Sistemas Colombiano de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación: sus actores y sus productos
¿Cómo repensar el desarrollo productivo?
Las políticas industriales a menudo han causado más daño que beneficio. El nuevo marco conceptual presentado en este libro permite a los países adoptar las políticas de desarrollo productivo necesarias para prosperar, evitando caer en los errores del pasado. El libro replantea el desarrollo productivo a través de la investigación de las fallas de mercado que impiden la transformación y de las fallas de gobierno que pueden convertir a los remedios de políticas en algo peor que los males de mercado. Utilizando un marco conceptual simple, basado en el alcance y naturaleza del enfoque de políticas, los autores sistemáticamente analizan las políticas de los países en áreas clave como innovación, empresas nuevas, financiamiento, capital humano e internacionalización. Reconociendo que incluso las mejores políticas fallarán sin la capacidad técnica, organizacional y política para implementarlas, el libro concluye con ideas sobré cómo diseñar instituciones con los incentivos adecuados, incrementar las capacidades del sector público a lo largo del tiempo y promover una constructiva colaboración público-privada.
Lessons Learned and Not Yet Learned from a Multicountry Initiative on Women's Economic Empowerment
The Results-Based Initiatives were a pioneering attempt to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions to foster the economic empowerment of women, via five small pilots. This study highlights lessons coming from the impact of the interventions and dos and don’ts in the design and implementation of pilots.
Computational Economics
The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics in software so that the model can be solved on a computer is a crucial skill for economists. Computational Economics contains well-known models--and some brand-new ones--designed to help students move from verbal to mathematical to computational representations in economic modeling. The authors' focus, however, is not just on solving the models, but also on developing the ability to modify them to reflect one's interest and point of view. The result is a book that enables students to be creative in developing models that are relevant to the economic problems ...
