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Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

banking systems that go well beyond the adoption of digital-technology tools …

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Incidence of the digital economy and frictional unemployment : international evidence

Lederman, Daniel; Zouaidi, Marwane - 2020

This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...

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Policy and regulatory issues with digital businesses

Chen, Rong - 2019

Advances in digital technology are expanding the boundaries of firms. Digital platform firms, which leverage a …

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Technology within and across firms

Cirera, Xavier; Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2020

productivity is positively associated with the within-firm variance and the average level of technology sophistication. Development … sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology … sophistication across the business functions of a firm. The within-firm variance in technology sophistication is greater than the …

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Welfare effects of introducing competition in the telecom sector in Djibouti

Decoster, Xavier; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Mendiratta, Vibhuti - 2019

Djibouti is very well placed, as a landing site of undersea fiber optic cables, to benefit from the digital economy. However, the prevalence of a single national telecom operator in the country has stifled service delivery and innovation in the telecom sector. Mobile broadband coverage and...

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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Mustafa, Dinc; … - 2019

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

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