Knowledge-Bearing Elites and Industrial Performance in France and Germany. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 04.5, December 1993

Most comparative studies of public policies for competitiveness focus on the links among public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions---or knowledge-bearing elites-that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are par­ ticularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases, but not in others. France's "state-created" elites were well-positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. Germany's state-recognized elites were, by contrast, better positioned to facilitate framework­ oriented programs that aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages among administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time while German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.

Credit for marginal groups; a study of the principal private sector credit institutions providing loans to marginal groups in the countries of the Dominican Republic, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Guatemala.

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Monetary and banking reform in Paraguay.

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Report and balance sheet /

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Desert tortoise habitat conservation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 880, to provide for the acquisition of property in Washington County, Utah, for implementation of a desert tortoise habitat conservation plan, May 10, 2001.

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Annual report - Superintendent of Banks, State of New York.

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Individualism & social welfare, an analysis of the system of social security and social welfare in France.

Includes bibliography.

The Federal reserve act, its origin and problems,

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Business looks at banks.

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The Bankers', insurance managers', and agents' magazine.

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Business looks at banks; a study of business behavior,

"This report is based on a nation-wide sample interview survey conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan."

The Rand-McNally bankers' directory and list of attorneys.

Vols. for 1901-1918 called 50th-85th ed.

Rand McNally bankers directory and the bankers register with list of attorneys.

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Clean water and the land ; local government's role.

Prepared by American Society of Planning Officials under contract no. 68-01-1969.

Village banks or, Agricultural credit societies for small occupiers, village tradesmen, etc; how to start them, how to work them ...

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