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Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap : Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...
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Technology Strategies for Low-Carbon Economic Growth : A General Equilibrium Assessment
Sue Wing, Ian - 2017
This paper investigates the potential for developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions without slowing their expected economic growth. A theoretical frame- work is developed that unifies bottom-up marginal abatement cost curves and partial equilibrium techno-economic simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968719
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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"
Golub, Alexander - 2017
This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...
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Aging, Trade, and Migration
Chisik, Richard - 2017
international trade as well as trade and immigration policy. An aging society can see a welfare-reducing reduction in its share of … manufacturing output and this reduction is magnified by a decrease in trade costs (an increase in globalization). Immigration can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968721
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R&D and Aggregate Fluctuations
Artuc, Erhan - 2014
United States Bureau of Economic Analysis and National Science Foundation, we show that technology innovations are the main …. After taking nominal innovations into consideration, such as shocks in monetary policy and inflation, capital investment … in the output of the non-R&D sector. Technology innovations jointly explain most of the variation of output in the R …
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The Dynamics of Development : Innovation and Reallocation
Buera, Francisco J. - 2019
This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration episodes triggered by reforms. The authors find that reforms removing barriers to firm entry lead to persistent growth in TFP and declining average firm size, as in the experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898365
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Technological Change and the Labor Market in Argentina and Uruguay : A Task Content Analysis
Apella, Ignacio - 2017
The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task content performed by the workers in their jobs. The paper aims to produce an approximation of the impact of technological change on the labor market. The paper uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945768
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Creative Natives in the Digital Age : How Digital Technology Has Revolutionized Creative Work
Kabanda, Patrick - 2017
Digital technologies have permeated modern life, and their impact on creative work has been revolutionary. This revolution, as widely noted, has disrupted the making, distribution, and consumption of creative output. On the downside, key concerns include Internet-induced piracy and inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968766
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Will Digital Technologies Transform Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Deichmann, Uwe - 2017
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no exception. Building on a recent World Bank flagship report, this paper introduces a concise framework for describing the main benefits from new information and communications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969295
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Economic Structural Change as an Option for Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change
Golub, Alexander - 2017
this trade-off, based on numerical simulation of a multi-period model of economic growth and climate change impacts that …
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