Screen LibraryPromoting innovation, productivity and industrial growth and reducing poverty
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 200 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415495592 0415495598 |
| Index Number: | F112 |
| CLC: | F112.1 |
| Call Number: | F112.1/P965 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Promoting innovation, productivity and industrial growth and reducing poverty: briding the policy Gap / Maureen Mackintosh, Joanna Chataway and Marc Wuyts -- Innovation and poverty reduction: rethinking development theory -- Transforming social policy and innovation in developing countries / Thandika Mkandawire -- Which growth theory is good for the poor? / Charles Gore -- Innovation in health and the challenge of poverty reduction -- Gap between successful innovation and access to its benefits: Indian pharmaceuticals / Sudip Chaudhuri -- Diffusion of medical technology and equity in health in Brazil: an explanatory analysis / Sebastiao Loureiro ... [et al.] -- Competitive and organisational constraints on innovation, investment and quality of care in a liberalised low-income health system: evidence from Tanzania / Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage -- International AIDS vaccine initiative (IAVI) in a changing landscape of vaccine development: a public/private partnership as knowledge broker and integrator / Joanna Chataway ... [et al.] -- Finance, innovation and building private sector capacity -- Competitive selection and technological capabilities in Ethiopian manufacturing / Adamasu Shiferaw -- Banking on rural innovation for poverty reduction: a case study of value-chain lending in Mozambique / Roberto Simonetti, Marc Wuyts and Anna Wuyts-Fivawo -- Industry associations and technology-based growth in India / Suma Athreye and Sachin Chaturvedi -- Learning through inter-organisational interactions: public research institutes in the Nigerian biopharmaceutical system of innovation / Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Padmashree Gehl Sampath. This text addresses the gap between research and 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. |