Promoting innovation, productivity and industrial growth and reducing poverty / edited by Maureen Mackintosh, Joanna Chataway and Marc Wuyts. - 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty: Briding the Policy Gap - Introduction / Innovation and Poverty Reduction: Rethinking Development Theory -- Transforming Social Policy and Innovation in Developing Countries / Which Growth Theory is Good for the Poor? / Innovation in Health and the Challenge of Poverty Reduction -- The Gap Between Successful Innovation and Access to its Benefits: Indian Pharmaceuticals / Diffusion of Medical Technology and Equity in Health in Brazil: an Explanatory Analysis / Competitive and Organisational Constraints on Innovation, Investment and Quality of Care in a Liberalised Low-income Health System: Evidence from Tanzania / The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development: A Public/Private Partnership as Knowledge Broker and Integrator / Finance, Innovation and Building Private Sector Capacity -- Competitive Selection and Technological Capabilities in Ethiopian Manufacturing / Banking on Rural Innovation for Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Value-chain Lending in Mozambique / Industry Associations and Technology-based Growth in India / Learning Through Inter-organisational Interactions: Public Research Institutes in the Nigerian Biopharmaceutical System of Innovation / Maureen Mackintosh, Joanna Chataway and Marc Wuyts -- Thandika Mkandawire -- Charles Gore -- Sudip Chaudhuri -- Sebastiao Loureiro, Bruno Simoes, Erika Aragao, Fabio Mota, Hamilton Moura and Luciano Damasceno -- Maureen Mackintosh and Paula Tibandebage -- Joanna Chataway, Stefano Brussoni, Eugenia Cacciatori, Rebecca Hanlin and Luigi Orsenigo -- Adamasu Shiferaw -- Roberto Simonetti, Marc Wuyts and Anna Wuyts-Fivawo -- Suma Athreye and Sachin Chaturvedi -- Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Padmashree Gehl Sampath. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Labor productivity--Developing countries
Poverty--Developing countries
Technological innovations--Developing countries

HC79.L3 / P76 2008

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