Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …

at the technology frontier through a simple process of technological transfers, we are able to show that education … quality not only speeds up the process of technology diffusion but it also helps account for 45-53 per cent of differences in … labor productivity. As we argue, failure to control for the gap in technology levels between the leader and the follower …

of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United … infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …