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Why don't poor countries do R&D ? (English)

Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than rich as a share of GDP. This is arguably counter intuitive since the gains from doing the R&D required for technological catch up are thought to be very high and Griffith et al (2004) have documented that in the OECD returns increase dramatically with distance from the frontier. Exploiting recent advances in...
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Goni Pacchioni,Edwin; Maloney,William F..

Why don't poor countries do R&D ? (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6811 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/855681468326185477

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