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It's Not What You Make, it's How You Use it : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the it Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2002

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...

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RandD, innovation, and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis

Ulku, Hulya - 2004

This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R … the period 1981–97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and non …

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The macroeconomic impacts of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from submarine cables

Simione, Félix F.; Li, Yiruo - 2021

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ICT, financial inclusion, and growth : evidence from African countries

Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina; Kpodar, Kangni - 2011

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ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries

Kpodar, Kangni - 2011

This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we investigate whether financial inclusion is one of the channels through which mobile phone...

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Harnessing digital technologies to promote SMEs and inclusive growth in the MENAP region

Lukonga, Inutu - 2020

Policy makers in the MENAP region have been formulating policies and designing programs to develop small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a view to create jobs and achieve inclusive growth. But while the programs have helped increase the number of enterprises, growth of SMEs continues to...

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Macroeconomic consequences of tariffs

Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Ostry, … - 2019

We study the macroeconomic consequences of tariffs. We estimate impulse response functions from local projections using a panel of annual data that spans 151 countries over 1963-2014. We find that tariff increases lead, in the medium term, to economically and statistically significant declines...

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On the impact of structural reforms on output and employment : evidence from a cross-country firm-level analysis

Almeida, Luiza Antoun de; Balasundharam, Vybhavi - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of selected structural reforms on output and employment in the short and medium term. It uses a comprehensive cross-country firm-level dataset covering both advanced and emerging market economies over the period 2003-2014. In line with previous studies, it finds...

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Technological and economic decoupling in the cyber era

Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Goyal, Rishi - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward digital services. Meanwhile, the race for technological and economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from the worst global recession since the Great Depression....

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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development

Wu, Dong; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019

This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between the shadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and...

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