The Information and Communication technology(ICT) environment in the economic community of west african states …

The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that knowledge decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document … country is a successful exporter of that same product. For existing products, growth of exports in a country is 1.5% higher … diffusion. …

from a productivity acceleration linked to a catch-up of the US ICT diffusion level. And they could benefit, without any … delay with the US, from the possible ICT productivity growth second wave. … the productive use, in computers, of the 3D chip. The lag of ICT diffusion in non-US developed countries, mainly Europe …

in productivity. Domestic R&D is an important factor of production as are spillovers from foreign research. While cross …-country differences in domestic research contribute to international differences in productivity, world research spillovers contribute to … exist. This enhances the effect of world research on the growth rates of countries that receive spillovers. …

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada … find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high … rates of technology embodiment. …

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada … find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high … rates of technology embodiment. …

an acceleration in productivity, with the result that value-added in manufacturing has maintained its historic share of … aggregate output. Estimation of production functions including the R&D stock as a measure of technology suggest that the largest … increases in multifactor productivity in manufacturing are primarily attributable to technological advance. There is also some …

puts forward three specific policies to improve Canada’s productivity performance: foster the diffusion of best …This paper makes the case that productivity is Canada’s economic destiny and that Canada’s dismal productivity …

economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …