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(ICT) and its impact on economic growth over the last decade. It shows a wide set of indicators reflecting a technological … fall in labor productivity is explained by an insufficient investment on non-ICT capital as well as by a negative … by a higher rate of ICT and non-ICT capital accumulation and by a less negative contribution from TFP. The article …
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Access to mobile telephony in Colombia exhibits rather interesting features compared to other countries. Colombia witnessed the beginning of a new alternative for communication consisting in the use of informal resale of minutes on the streets and small stores during the first years of this...
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French ICT sector. But they argue that having a large ICT-producing sector is not a necessary condition to obtain the full … benefits from ICT use and conclude that the ICT contribution to growth in France and other European countries could increase …
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The 2013 PREDICT report provides an overview of the importance of the EU ICT sector and its R&D performance. The report … gives detailed information on the progress made by the ICT sector comprising both ICT manufacturing and ICT service. The …, including both developed and emerging economies. The report found the trends that the EU ICT sector had a reduction in its share …
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early 2008 which impacts the first most severe downturn in 2009 for the European Union (EU) ICT sector and its R …&D performance. The report found that the EU ICT sector continued losing share in total value added, but gaining the share in terms … of employment and BERD intensity. The share of ICT R&D public funding (GBAORD) on total GBAORD also increased in 2010 and …
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This study examines the determinants of information and communications technology(ICT) use and access of low … ICTs use acrossgender, age, education and income, using two composite indicators of ICT. The mainsimilarity across the …
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The paper deals with the state and development of knowledge economy in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and its contribution to national competitiveness. The main goal is to discuss whether a relationship between the level of knowledge economy and macroeconomic competitiveness can be...
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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating … ICT-based solutions in the health sector. These criteria include infrastructure, data and interoperability standards … 12 specific case studies of potentially scalable ICT-based health care solutions currently being implemented across the …
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The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
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