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Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?

Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2004

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity … transition economies – through the use of ICT - are benefiting from the technological leapfrogging to increase the growth rates … ICT capital to output growth and labor productivity is due to an extraordinary acceleration in real ICT investments, which …

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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000

Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2003

There is large evidence on a positive impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and … of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and … framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest …

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Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?

Koivu, Tuuli - EconWPA - 2002

The relationship between financial sector and economic growth in transition countries has been largely ignored in the earlier empirical literature. In this paper, we analyse the finance-growth nexus using a fixed-effects panel model and unbalanced panel data from 25 transition countries during...

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Technology and work - the 21st century and its challenges

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

In sectors using information and communications technology (ICT) as platform for innovation, the meaning of the term …

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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...

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004

India that examined the economics of rural Internet kiosks, and relate this multifaceted case study to the theoretical …

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Policy Complementarities and the Washington Consensus

Aziz, Jahangir; Wescott, Robert - EconWPA - 1999

While economists continue to debate whether individual economic policies, such as those contained in Willliamsons (1993) Washington Consensus, can help to spur growth in developing countries, this paper demonstrates that it is groups of policies that are more critical for growth. Policy...

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Democracy and growth: An alternative empirical approach

Shen, Jian-Guang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper proposes a “before-and-after” approach to empirical examination of the relationship between democracy and growth. Rather than the commonly used cross-country regression method, this paper compares the economic performances of forty countries before and after they became...

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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...

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Inequality, Growth, and Overtaking

Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005

This research develops a theory about the role of within-country income inequality leading to overtaking in economic performance among countries. The theory captures two opposing effects of inequality on factor accumulation and suggests that the qualitative change in their combined effect is a...

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