This paper is motivated by the idea of "appropriate technology" and its implications for economic growth. Consistent with a simple model, some evidence is presented that efficiency growth rates are positively correlated with capital-labour ratios across countries. It is argued that this...

Recent development and growth accounting studies have established that total factor productivity is an important source of cross-country differences in income levels and growth rates. This paper makes two contributions. First, it examines the sensitivity of the development accounting results to...

Le principal objet de cet ouvrage est d'etudier les operations de transfert technologique au Cameroun et d'etablir des liens entre ces operations, les inputs technologiques et les resultats obtenus. L'auteur decrit un modele d'organisation des systemes de transfert technologique (O.I.S.I.E. =...