Development and the ending of mass poverty require a massive
increase in productive capabilities and production in developing
countries. Some countries, notably in Asia, are achieving this. Yet
'pro-poor' aid policies, especially for the least developed
countries, operate largely without reference to policy thinking on
the promotion of innovation for productivity growth. Conversely,
policy-makers and researchers on innovation and industrial policies
tend to know little about the potential for social protection to
support innovation and productivity improvement. This book aims to
focus attention on this gulf between research on innovation and on
poverty reduction and to identify some of its policy consequences;
to set out some ways in which this gulf can be bridged,
analytically and empirically; and to contribute to the creation of
an agenda for further research and an understanding of the urgency
of the implied rethinking.
The first two chapters provide sustained arguments for embedding
social policy thinking in much more 'productivist' frameworks of
thought that focus on raising productivity and employment; and for
identifying growth theories that can incorporate satisfactory
understandings of innovation and employment upgrading. A set of
chapters then tackle these broad themes in the context of health,
addressing the interlinked issues of innovation, health inequity
and associated impoverishment. The final set of chapters examines
the challenge of creating industrial policies that generate both
innovation and employment, using and going beyond concepts of
systems of innovation.
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