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This study focuses on the process of technology catch-up and competitive advantage creation, drawing on the successful … countries have exploited the opportunities made possible by the information technology revolution and built sustainable … information technology miracle. …
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Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment is estimated to have reduced SSA's per capita growth in the 1960-92 period by 0.8 percentage points per year. Therefore reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an...
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This paper examines the methodologies for project evaluation that, in principle, have been adopted and are stylized by the World Bank.
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The report presents the main structural characteristics of the sectors included in the Technology Adoption Survey (TAS … allowed us to identify the different natures of their technological needs and the barriers to technology adoption. Sectors in … Poland differ in technology sophistication in both general business and sector-specific functions but, to a large extent …
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Poland. Second, chapter 2 provides key insights from the results by linking technology adoption with productivity, managerial … Sectoral approach to the drivers of productivity growth in Polish sectors. A firm-level perspective on technology adoption and …This report provides detailed knowledge on firm-level technology sophistication in Poland, and, by identifying the main …
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This report examines Ukraine's economic decline and development through the lens of technology upgrading. The … technology upgrading framework assumes that economic growth is a function of technology capability, whereby upgrading occurs … through technological, industrial, and organizational change. This technology upgrading framework is applied to analyze the …
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participation and productivity. Chapter 5 focuses on ways to leverage public-private partnerships to providetraining and activation …
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investigates differences in productivity dynamics across economic segments and attempts to derive policy recommendations to improve … the Polish economy's productivity performance. First, the authors estimate firm-level total factor productivity (TFP …), compute labor productivity indices, and analyze the main productivity patterns between 2009 and 2019. Second, the authors …
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prices, and structural degradation of the economy. Kazakhstan's productivity growth has steadily fallen over the past two … decades. Falling within-sector productivity improvements are the driving force behind Kazakhstan's productivity slowdown. The … patterns must be corrected to revive productivity, which is essential for higher economic growth - since higher investment …
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