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Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2004
, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that the contribution of investment in IT hardware, software and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555980
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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2003
framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest … challenges of using available data and its impact on the choice of specific methodologies. The paper shows that ICT investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556009
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Information Technology and Australia’s Productivity Surge
Parham, Dean; Roberts, Paul; Sun, Haishun - EconWPA - 2001
This paper finds that the rapid update of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia’s strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062448
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popovic, Milenko - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. In order to do it we started from the general production function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556090
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The Globalisation and its Implications for the Economic Development of Latin America
Blum, Matthias; Stosberg, Jörg - EconWPA - 2003
The process of globalisation has in several ways an impact on the Latin American Economies. The recent developments give a carefully optimistic view on the economic consequences for these countries. While all of the Latin American nations still lag behind the industrialised countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119261
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The technological theory of production and a method of decomposition of the rate of GDP in terms of labour and capital services
Pokrovski, Vladimir - EconWPA - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134973
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125622
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The Relationship Between Growth and Investment
Rao, B Bhaskara - EconWPA - 2005
of output and the ratio of investment to output. With plausible parametric assumptions this framework is used to examine … the recent controversy in Fiji on investment and growth. Our results support the concerns of some USP economists that a 5 …% growth rate for Fiji needs significantly higher investment rates and institutional reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126307