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This study examines SME productivity performance as a factor of access to credit within the Ethiopian economy. Empirical analysis is based on Ethiopian Large and Medium Manufacturing Enterprise Survey
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Traditional neo-classical market approach to regional integration/cooperation mainly focuses on trade and investment. The paper proposes an innovation system approach to regional integration/cooperati
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Climatic fluctuation is putting Nigeria’s agriculture system under serious threat and stress. The study of the effect of climate change on agricultural productivity is critical given its impact in cha
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The provision of clean drinking water and discharge of adequately treated wastewater is a fundamental requirement for human life. The lack of access to clean water is a serious health concern. Accordi
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Whenever people think of FDI flows, the traditional assumption is that the investment flows from MNCs in the developed economies to either other developed economies and/or to the developing world. Now
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The innovation systems literature has provided a useful framework to analyse the linkages of firms and other organisations with both domestic and foreign actors. Although the concept of innovation sys
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In many extant analyses of the impact of non-reciprocal system of trade preferences, it is typical to focus on the details of market access value of tariff concessions as explanation for why export of
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The research question we wish to investigate is the degree to which different countries with differing levels of NSI strength and weakness cope in mitigating some of the adverse impacts of the recessi
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In this paper an attempt will be made to identify what has been explicitly recognised as central and peripheral within the systems of innovation concept; the inclusion or exclusion of the factors that
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The ability to absorb and use effectively FDI flows by countries to enhance their national productive systems is directly related to the degree of functioning of an economy’s national innovation syste
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