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Since Information and Communication Technologies adoption has grown, research on link of ICT and Economic Growth link … has found that there is a significant impact of the use of ICT on growth; however, it generally ignores the determinants … determinants of differentiated use of ICT at subsector level in Mexico. using factor analysis, cluster analysis and econometrics …
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This paper employs the databases that are used to construct Statistics Canada's Productivity Accounts to examine the sources of growth in the Canadian economy and the history of productivity growth in Canada over the period 1961 to 2002. It makes use of a new time series using the North American...
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Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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Die Produktivität wächst in vielen Industriestaaten mit abnehmender Rate. Gleichzeitig entwickelt sich die Produktivität zwischen einzelnen Unternehmen auch in eng begrenzten Wirtschaftsbereichen unterschiedlich. Gibt es zwischen diesen beiden Entwicklungen Zusammenhänge? Es zeigt sich, dass...
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ICT capital is an important driver of productivity growth. Using data from the EUKLEMS growth accounts, we show that … ICT has made smaller contributions to labour productivity growth in the EU-15 than in the US, both at the macro level and …, the growth contributions from ICT are found to be smaller than those from TFP. However, our empirical analysis suggests …
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From an engineering perspective, a capital good’s service is energy conversion - e.g., the physical 'work' done by a machine - and can thus be measured directly by the energy consumed in production. We show important empirical advantages of our concept over traditional measures. The empirical...
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In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to growth from difference sources (ICT and non ICT capital, human capital …
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(ICT)? We analyze this question based on a growth accounting approach at the level of final output. This approach traces … better products have become available to final users, in particular consumers, as a result of the diffusion of ICT. A main … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are …
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While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long-term challenge of sustaining growth beyond the crisis. The central objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the sources of economic growth in 12 developing Asian economies...
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Using a growth accounting framework, we find that developing Asia grew rapidly over the past 3 decades mainly due to robust growth in capital accumulation. The contributions of education and total factor productivity in the region's past economic growth remain relatively limited. Our baseline...
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