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9780415465281

Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415465281

  • ISBN10:

    0415465281

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book addresses the gap between research and current policy on ending mass poverty in developing countries. It provides arguments for embedding social policy thinking in productivist frameworks of thought that focus on raising productivity and employment; and for identifying growth theories that can incorporate innovation and upgrading employment.

Table of Contents

Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty: Briding the Policy Gap - Introductionp. 1
Innovation and Poverty Reduction: Rethinking Development Theory
Transforming Social Policy and Innovation in Developing Countriesp. 13
Which Growth Theory is Good for the Poor?p. 30
Innovation in Health and the Challenge of Poverty Reduction
The Gap Between Successful Innovation and Access to its Benefits: Indian Pharmaceuticalsp. 49
Diffusion of Medical Technology and Equity in Health in Brazil: an Explanatory Analysisp. 66
Competitive and Organisational Constraints on Innovation, Investment and Quality of Care in a Liberalised Low-income Health System: Evidence from Tanzaniap. 81
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development: A Public/Private Partnership as Knowledge Broker and Integratorp. 100
Finance, Innovation and Building Private Sector Capacity
Competitive Selection and Technological Capabilities in Ethiopian Manufacturingp. 118
Banking on Rural Innovation for Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Value-chain Lending in Mozambiquep. 136
Industry Associations and Technology-based Growth in Indiap. 156
Learning Through Inter-organisational Interactions: Public Research Institutes in the Nigerian Biopharmaceutical System of Innovationp. 174
Indexp. 195
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