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Some Thoughts on Making Long-Term Forecasts for the World Economy
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
projections and scenario analysis. Such forecasting has become increasingly challenging, thanks to the rapid pace of globalization … the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …-house researchers and global experts who work on state-of-the-art models related to globalization, technological progress and …
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries of trade-related technology diffusion from the North) (denoted by NRD), education, and governance, research and development The NRD value for a developing...
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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia : Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
Almeida, Rita - 2017
This paper examines whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. The author explores a unique firm level data set across eight countries in Asia and the Pacific region. The results strongly support the...
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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Glachant, Matthieu - 2017
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of...
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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2017
Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...
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The Internet as a General-Purpose Technology : Firm-Level Evidence from Around the World
Qiang, Christine Zhenwei - 2017
This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (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...
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Innovation and Development Around the World, 1960-2000
Lederman, Daniel - 2005
The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …
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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles
Killicoat, Phillip - 2016
This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles. A model of the small arms market is developed and empirically estimated to...
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Global Income Inequality : What it is and Why it Matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
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