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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries

Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their …

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and … public investment in information and communication technologies as infrastructure for development, the importance of …

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The role of "skill enhancing trade" in Brazil : some evidence from microdata

Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Bogliacino, … - 2009

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...

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Openness and technological innovation in East Asia : have they increased the demand for skills?

Almeida, Rita - 2009

This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology...

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Openness and technological innovations in developing countries : evidence from firm-level surveys

Almeida, Rita (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...

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Globalization and employment : imported skill biased technological change in developing countries

Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

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North-South trade-related technology diffusion : virtuous growth cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2010

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Unraveling the role of public researcher mobility for industrial innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - 2011

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...

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Globalization, technological change and labor demand : a firm level analysis for Turkey

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits a unique longitudinal firm‐level database that covers all manufacturing firms...

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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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