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The North American Free Trade Agreement appeared to promise economic growth for Mexico and improved living conditions for its people. While the Mexican economy has recovered significantly from its post-NAFTA collapse, there is mounting evidence that many of the pre-NAFTA warnings of worsening...
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The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought to assess the benefits and costs of the Regime, including its effects on investment. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003...
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Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...
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, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …
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The relations between the riches of nations and the riches of Productive Knowledge (Technology) gains increasing … production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge, gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but … technology itself is the product of mental labor. In support of this assertion, a simple model of growth based on productive …
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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is …
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After decades of slow growth since Independence from the British Raj, Indian economy registered its own small miracle, when growth rate of GDP per capita surpassed the long term growth rate of many advanced economies. What caused this miracle? In this paper, we search for an answer in the...
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It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...
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The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity … favorable to the rapid spread of new technology. The first states that latecomer advantage allows developing countries to … diffuse new technology faster than developed countries. The second claim, widely articulated by advocates of neo …
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Recently there has been a growing tendency to impose curvature, but not monotonicity, on specifications of technology …, estimated flexible specifications of technology are much more likely to violate curvature than monotonicity. Hence it has been … our earlier results with a multiproduct financial technology specified to be generalized quadratic. In our earlier work …
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