available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …

as they are used in the countries in our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with … lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per … they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that technology usage disparities might …

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …, have the potential to achieve growth through efficiency improvements and by adopting technology. Output growth in the …

, technology, and geography, and that none of these alone is sufficient to account for the diverse patterns of global growth. We …

obstacles to growth, poor education and poor access to electricity supply, we aggregate the firms' data at the sectoral level … primary and vocational education. Another key conclusion drawn in the AfDB report is that the main obstacle to production is …

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …