Category: Education
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State-Owned Enterprise Challenges and World Bank Group Reforms
– This article is provided for Educational Purposes only – Highlight This article presents why World Bank Group support for state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform matters, the pattern of Bank Group engagement, and a typology of major Bank Group support interventions. It assesses the contribution of the World Bank Group’s three main institutions to enhancing development…
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Five Fundamentals Principles Underlie the Program Support for Scientific Research
By: Vannevar Bush in 1945. From Physics Today 51, no. 02. 1988. Certain basic principles must underlie the program of Government support for scientific research and education if such support is to be effective and if it is to avoid impairing the very things we seek to foster. These principles are as follows: (1) Whatever the…
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Scientific Progress is Essential
By: Vannevar Bush. 1945 07. United States Government Printing Office. This article is to be used for educational support purposes only. We all know how much the new drug, penicillin, has meant to our grievously wounded men on the grim battlefronts of this war – the countless lives it has saved – the incalculable suffering…
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The US Ignores the Manufacturing Sector at the Expense of its Innovation System and Working Class Communities
Bonvillian, William B. 2016. “Donald Trump’s Voters and the Decline of American Manufacturing.” Issues in Science and Technology 32, no. 4. This article gets adjusted from the original post for educational purposes only. Who are Donald Trump’s voters? What do they want? Observers call them angry, but anger has root causes and grievances. A December…
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Growth Theory and After
By: Solow, Robert M. 2014. “Robert M. Solow – Prize Lecture: Growth Theory and After (nobelprize.org).” Nobel Prize Prize Lecture. Nobel Media AB – To be used for Educational Purposes only – I have been told that everybody has dreams but that some people habitually forget them even before they wake up. That is what happened…