Understanding the relationship between information technology (IT) investments and productivity has been a challenge …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … the long run outweighs this short run loss. This paper points to such “learning cost” in technology upgrading as a …

Working paper on choice of technology in the rice milling industry and related agricultural machinery industry of … with USA. Discusses technical aspects of rice processing and modes of technology acquisition and outlines training and …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on socio-economic implications of the use of solar energy technology in the Sahel …

the effects of their choice of technology on employment creation in developing countries - describes small- scale and … labour intensive technology, small size of enterprise, flexibility of inputs (machinery, local level raw materials), etc …