(technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It finds that only Internet services are so …: firm growth and productivity are much higher when Internet access is greater and when firms use the Internet more … intensively; and Internet access benefits firms in high- and low-tech industries, firms of all sizes, and exporter and non …

The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the … impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on … international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when Internet adoption increases in the exporter than importer. A 10 …

practices used in Australia, Austria, Canada, and the Netherlands to determine program costs as part of medium-term expenditure …

organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools …

(Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross …

-spots around the world. Several of these are located in areas associated with high levels of air pollution. This study investigates … the relationship between exposure to particulate matter and COVID-19 incidence in 355 municipalities in the Netherlands …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …