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mechanism of technological development. Hence, the probability to adopt any e- business technology is hypothesized to be an … technology in the future. The existence of the endogenous acceleration mechanism has important implications for the management of … 2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
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of human mind. In other words, knowledge on production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge provides the premises … and gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but technology itself is the product of mental labor …
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The discipline of ergonomics studies the interaction between man and the designed technical and organizational environment. In product ergonomics, this knowledge is used to develop user-friendly products and in production ergonomics to design human-friendly (production) processes. Beside social...
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Estonia is one of the most rapidly developing information societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Still, 61% of the Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons...
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …
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this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …
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This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening...
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regimes on prices in up to 50 economies for 3 sectors — international air passenger transport, telecommunications and …
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