Why Don't Poor Countries Do R&D?

Why Don't Poor Countries Do R&D?

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...

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Main Authors:	Goñi, Edwin, Maloney, William F.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING ALLOCATION APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY BANDWIDTH BASIC RESEARCH BENCHMARK BOND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES CAPITAL INVESTMENT COMPETITIVENESS COMPUTERS COVARIANCE MATRIX CREDIT CONSTRAINTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT BANK DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FRONTIER ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMICS RESEARCH ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS ESP ESTIMATORS EXOGENOUS VARIABLES EXPECTED RETURNS EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXPORT MARKET EXTERNALITIES FACTORS OF PRODUCTION FINANCES FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT FISCAL POLICY FIXED INVESTMENT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT GDP GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GLOBALIZATION GOVERNMENT SPENDING GROWTH MODELS GROWTH RATE GROWTH THEORY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN INTERACTIONS HYPOTHESIS TESTING INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INNOVATION INNOVATION POLICY INNOVATIONS INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS INSTRUMENT INSURANCE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS INTEREST RATE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS INVENTION INVENTORY INVESTING INVESTMENT CLIMATES INVESTMENT DECISIONS INVESTMENT RATES IP LDCS LIQUIDITY LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS LOCALIZATION MACROECONOMICS MANUFACTURING MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARKET FAILURES MARKET RETURNS METHODOLOGY MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MODELING MONOPOLY NETWORKS NEW TECHNOLOGIES OPEN ACCESS PATENTS POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC UTILITIES RATE OF RETURN RATES OF RETURN REAL GDP REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESULT RESULTS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SHARE OF INVESTMENT STATISTICAL DATA STOCKS TECHNIQUES TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE TREASURY TRUST FUND URUGUAY ROUND USES WAGES WEALTH WEALTH OF NATIONS WEIGHTING WTO R&D
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19266897/dont-poor-countries-rd http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17729

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/03/19266897/dont-poor-countries-rd
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17729

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