progress in the traditional sector takes the form of horizontal innovation based on expanding variety, while the technologies …-intensive, advanced industry in the developed countries (DCs) would be nonviable owing to the relative scarcity of capital in the LDCs …

being felt, as the industry experiences difficulties in meeting the demands of the marketspecifically, the countrys ability … can policymakers provide broader and longer term directions for the industry, specifically on : (1) whether the present … competitiveness of the BPO industry, and the consequences of this educational thrust on other strategic sectors of the economy. …

. These are functional procurement/efficiency services, which transform procurement of environmentally problematic goods and … depend in part on achieving a green trajectory of service sector development, in which services help green the product … economy. In the short run, however, can services help address short- and medium-term challenges of emergence and recovery from …

This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the …). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation with …

This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the …). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation with …

This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production …-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been some improvement in the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector … industrial groups have gained in terms of technical efficiency, some industries have shown deterioration in their efficiency …

use liberalized services as inputs, experienced productivity gains in this period. …This paper investigates the changes in productivity growth rates of Korean service and manufacturing subsectors in … relation to the liberalization of trade in services. Since Korea underwent accelerated liberalization of the service sector in …

services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … modern sector and that modern services are only a viable destination for the highly skilled few. To the extent that the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …

traditional services, the second wave of modern (financial, communication, computer, technical, legal, advertising and business …) services that are receptive to the application of information technologies and increasingly tradable across borders. In …

government. However, industrial upgrading and innovation in the country was found to be weak. Expenditures on R&D are low and … economic zones and industry clustering have the potential to address some of the issues and problems identified. …