This dissertation investigates the productive performance of the private manufacturing sector of Egypt, particularly within the context of economic reforms undertaken since the early 1990s. Beginning in 1991, the Egyptian government implemented reforms to achieve macroeconomic s…
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Since the late 1990s the government of Malaysia has increased emphasis on its Intensification of Research in Priority Areas (IRPA) program, focusing scientific research in universities and government research institutes (GRIs) on activities most likely to enhance national econom…
Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Bec…
This dissertation contributes to recent lines of inquiry into the determinants of and efficient conduct of science and the contribution of science to the broader economy. Each chapter is a detailed examination of a certain part of the conduct of science at universities in the Un…
This dissertation investigates the role and importance of quality change in economic growth. Chapter 1 presents a model of endogenous growth through quality change that relaxes two of the usual assumptions in models of this type. First, rather than assuming that new innovations …