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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2017
continues with a discussion of sources of environmental innovation. Given that most innovation is concentrated in a few rich …
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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 … include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and …
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Green Growth, Technology and Innovation
Dutz, Mark A. - 2017
The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for …) there is potential for expanding green production and trade; and (5) there has been little base-of-pyramid green innovation … innovation, technology and environmental policies work best in tandem, focusing on three complementary areas: (1) to promote …
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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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Some Thoughts on Making Long-Term Forecasts for the World Economy
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …
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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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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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New Evidence on the Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy
Carneiro, Francisco - 2017
This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of cyclicality in the fiscal policy stance of developing and industrialized countries over a period of more than three decades covering 180 countries during 1980?2012. First, the paper considers issues of robustness in the choice of the proxy for...
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Ethiopia?S Growth Acceleration and How to Sustain It?Insights from a Cross-Country Regression Model
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
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