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2014-056: Productivity in services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edgar Ortiz, Gustavo Crespi, Alejandro Rasteletti and Fernando Vargas

2014-055: Where are innovation indicators, and their applications, going?

Fred Gault

2014-054: Globalization, the rise of biotechnology and catching up in agricultural innovation: The case of Bt technology in India

Michiko Iizuka and Ajay Thutupalli

2014-053: Does too much work hamper innovation? Evidence for diminishing returns of work hours for patent grants

Mehmet Celbis and Serdar Türkeli

2014-052: How important is innovation?: A Bayesian factor-augmented productivity model on panel data

Georges Bresson, J-M. Etienne and Pierre Mohnen

2014-051: Does shelter assistance reduce poverty in Afghanistan?

C. Loschman, Melissa Siegel and Christopher Parsons

2014-050: Mapping regional social enterprise ecosystems in India: Framework and indicators

L. Sonne

2014-049: China's economic embrace of Africa: An international comparative perspective

T. Broich and Adam Szirmai

2014-048: Accessibility analysis as an urban planning tool: Gas station location

D. Escobar, C. Cadena-Gaitan and F. Garcia

2014-047: Demand, credit and macroeconomic dynamics: A microsimulation model

Huub Meijers, Nomaler Z.O. and Bart Verspagen

2014-046: Successive leadership changes in the regional jet industry

Daniel Vertesy

2014-045: Insurgents in motion: Counterinsurgency and insurgency relocation in Iraq

Pui Hang Wong

2014-044: The unequal effect of India's industrial liberalization on firms' decision to innovate: Do business conditions matter?

M. Bas and Caroline Paunov

2014-043: An introduction to the economics of rare earths

Eva Bartekova-Hedoin

2014-042: Catching up and lagging behind in a balance-of-payments-constrained dual economy

Alejandro Lavopa

2014-041: To return permanently or to return temporarily?: Explaining migrants' intentions

Ozge Bilgili and Melissa Siegel

2014-040: Towards the societal system of innovation: The case of metropolitan areas in Europe

Serdar Türkeli and Rene Wintjes

2014-039: The political economy of research and innovation in organic photovoltaics (OPV) in different world regions

Serdar Türkeli and Rene Kemp

2014-038: Multinational production and trade in an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms

Hibret Maemir and Thomas Ziesemer

2014-037: Afghan unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: Far away from home and protected?

Melissa Siegel and C. Buil

2014-035: Stability and strategic diffusion in networks

T. Azomahou and Daniel Opolot

2014-034: Beliefs dynamics in communication networks

T. Azomahou and Daniel Opolot

2014-033: The impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing industries: an evaluation for seven EU regions

Rene Wintjes, D. Douglas, J. Fairburn, Hugo Hollanders and G. Pugh

2014-032: Beyond product innovation; improving innovation policy support for SMEs in traditional industries

Rene Wintjes, D. Douglas, J. Fairburn, Hugo Hollanders and G. Pugh

2014-031: Migration of international students and mobilizing skills in the MENA Region

S. Nour

2014-030: Challenges and opportunities for transition to knowledge-based economy in Arab Gulf countries

S. Nour

2014-029: Transition to a knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia

S. Nour

2014-028: The structure and comparative advantages of China's scientific research: Quantitative and qualitative perspectives

Lili Wang

2014-027: Country Terms of Trade 1960-2012: Trends, unit roots, over-differencing, endogeneity, time dummies, and heterogeneity

Thomas Ziesemer

2014-026: The harmony of programs package: Quasi-experimental evidence on deworming and canteen interventions in rural Senegal

T. Azomahou, F.L. Diallo and Wladimir Raymond

2014-025: One Europe or several? Causes and consequences of the European stagnation

Bart Verspagen and Jan Fagerberg

2014-024: Millennium Development Goals: Tool or token of global social governance?

C. Keijser, Y. Beshay, Mueid Al Raee, Elvis Avenyo, Mira Bierbaum, E. Amoateng and R. Sinha

2014-023: Parental leave take up and return to work of mothers in Luxembourg: An application of the model of nested dichotomies

N. Zhelyazkova

2014-022: Discovering and explaining work-family strategies of parents in Luxembourg

N. Zhelyazkova

2014-021: Infrastructure and the international export performance of Turkish regions

Mehmet Celbis, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

2014-020: Public investment and regional politics: The case of Turkey

Mehmet Celbis, D. de Crombrugghe and J. Muysken

2014-019: End-user collaboration for process innovation in services: The role of internal resources

Rajneesh Narula, M. Ashok and A. Martinez-Noya

2014-018: The impact of ICT in public and private universities in Sudan

S. Nour

2014-017: Overview of knowledge transfer in MENA countries: The case of Egypt

S. Nour

2014-016: Structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan

S. Nour

2014-015: Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview

S. Nour

2014-014: Assessment of effectiveness of Chinese aid in competence building and financing development in Sudan

S. Nour

2014-013: Patents as quality signals? The implications for financing constraints on R&D

Hanna Hottenrott, Dirk Czarnitzki and Bronwyn Hall

2014-012: Technology life cycle and specialization patterns of latecomer countries: The case of the semiconductor industry

Giorgio Triulzi

2014-011: Tipping points? Ethnic composition change in Dutch big city neighbourhoods

Cheng Boon Ong

2014-010: Why are women less democratic than men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Maty Konte

2014-009: Gender difference in support for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do social institutions matter?

Maty Konte

2014-008: School choice, segregation, and forced school closure

K. de Witte and Cheng Boon Ong

2014-007: Firms' adoption of international standards: Evidence from the Ethiopian floriculture sector

Mulu Gebreeyesus

2014-006: Poor trends: The pace of poverty reduction after the Millennium Development Agenda

D.P.I. de Crombrugghe, Adam Szirmai and Richard Bluhm