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Product Description: Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers...read more
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9780415627320 | Routledge, February 11, 2013, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development.
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9781138904156 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 27, 2015), cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development.
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9781461412748 | Springer Verlag, November 5, 2011, cover price $139.00
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9781493902545 | Springer Verlag, January 25, 2014, cover price $139.00
Product Description: Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in todayâs world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education...read more
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9781442646766 | Univ of Toronto Pr, February 7, 2014, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in todayâs world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic.
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9781442614628 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 17, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in todayâs world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic.
Product Description: One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level. In this book, Keun Lee explores the reasons why examples of successful catching-up are limited and in particular, why the Asian economies, including China, have managed to move, or are moving, beyond middle-income status but economic growth has stalled in some Latin American countries...read more
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9781107042681 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 16, 2013, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others revolves around the so-called 'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has grown strongly gets stuck at a certain level.
Product Description: In today's knowledge-driven world, innovation and innovation systems have become key policy issues. However, the extent of knowledge that is available on these concepts in less developed countries is still relatively low. Much of what we know about innovation theory and systems has come from the developed countries and reflects their world view...read more
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9781409423072 | Gower Pub Co, September 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In today's knowledge-driven world, innovation and innovation systems have become key policy issues.
Product Description: This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises...read more
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9780230238404 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book explores the drivers of technological upgrading and catch-up in the emerging economies, paying specific attention to technology and innovation policies, national innovation systems, the role of foreign direct investment and small and medium enterprises.
Product Description: Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are new in a given country context...read more
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9780821382691 | World Bank, May 25, 2010, cover price $35.00 | also contains Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries | About this edition: Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world.
Product Description: Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are new in a given country context...read more
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9780821382691 | World Bank, May 25, 2010, cover price $35.00 | also contains Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries | About this edition: Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world.
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9781847206091, titled "Handbook on Innovation Systems and Developing Countries: Building Domestic Capabilities in a Global Setting" | Edward Elgar Pub, February 28, 2010, cover price $229.00
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