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Industrial Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Weiss, John - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future … theoretical case, and a taxonomy of different possible interventions. Recent empirical evidence on the role of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366432
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Information Technology and Economic Development: An Introduction to the Research Issues.
Pohjola, M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1998
Even in industrial countries, the impact of information technology has not been as deep or pervasive as the debate about the benefits of the global information society sometimes makes it appear. The literature review on the US experience shows that there is neither a 'productivity paradox' nor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475015
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059822
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Measuring the Competitive Threat from China
Jenkins, Rhys - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
In recent years there has been a growing literature that analyses the threat which Chinese exports pose to the exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059949
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Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in Argentina
Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade … estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina?s manufacturing sector. Results … suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001238
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Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development
Bhargava, Alok - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
differential effects of the countries? exports and imports and by postulating trans-logarithmic models that allow for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060002
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Country Role Models: Synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland
Findlay, Ronald - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and Switzerland along the following themes: role of the state, openness, education and human capital, and macroeconomic stability. It then draws lessons for developing countries of today.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506130
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Information Technology and Economic Growth. A Cross-Country Analysis.
Pohjola, M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
This paper explores the impacts of informatin technology investment on economic groth in a cross-section of 39 countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical (Solow) growth model.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625478
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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development.
Quah, D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1999
Can the increasing signicance of knowledge-products in national income- the growing weightless economy-infuence economic development? Those technologies reduce "distance" between consumers and knowledge production This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625481
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Globalization, Technology, and Income Inequality: A Critical Analysis.
Singh, A.; Dhumale, R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
Much of the vast literature on changes in income distribution in advanced countries during the last two decades attributes these either to globalization, or to skill-biased technology, or to a combination of the two. A transatlantic concensus has emerged to suggest that thes two factors have led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661049