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Does technology adoption matter for economic development? : an empirical evidence for Latin American countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
Extraordinary spread of new information and communication (ICTs) technologies has been recognized worldwide. ICTs are … communication technologies (ICTs) adoption and dynamics of economic growth and development in Latin American countries. Preliminary … we consider ICTs diffusion patterns in Latin American countries, approximating the diffusion process by S-shaped curves …
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ICT diffusion and the finance-growth nexus : a panel analysis on ECOWAS countries
Alimi, Ahmed S.; Adediran, Idris A. - In: Future Business Journal 6 (2020) 16, pp. 1-10
-rent realities highlighting the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to modern societies, the study …
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Determinants of ICT infrastructure : a cross-country statistical analysis
Krüger, Jens; Rhiel, Mathias - 2016
We investigate economic and institutional determinants of ICT infrastructure for a broad cross section ofmore than 100 countries. The ICT variable is constructed from a principal components analysis. The explanatory variables are selected by variants of the Lasso estimator from the machine...
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The Illusions of Calculating Total Factor Productivity and Testing Growth Models : From Cobb–Douglas to Solow and Romer
Felipe, Jesus - 2020
This paper shows that because growth models in the tradition of Solow's and Romer's are framed in terms of production functions, they are equally subject to a criticism developed by, among others, Phelps Brown (1957), Simon (1979a), and Samuelson (1979). These authors argued that production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835343
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Growth Convergence and the Middle-Income Trap
Ito, Takatoshi - 2017
Emerging market economies in East Asia have followed a similar growth path (growth convergence) from a low-income, high-growth state to a middle-income, middle-growth state through industrialization. The economic development of Japan was followed by the “four tigers” (Hong Kong, China; the...
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Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation
Kenny, Charles - 2017
How much innovation will be needed to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals? We model shifts in the cross-country relationship between GDP per capita and achievement in key development indicators as “technological gains” and convergence to the best performers at a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944469
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Factor Reallocation and Growth : What if There Are Labor Saving Innovations?
Zuleta, Hernando - 2019
We claim that the standard methodology to study the effects of the reallocation of factors on growth is not adequate in the presence of biased innovations. Labor-saving innovations increase output per worker and may decrease the marginal productivity of labor. Therefore, a reallocation of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867751
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The Illusions of Calculating Total Factor Productivity and Testing Growth Models : From Cobb-Douglas to Solow and to Romer
Felipe, Jesus - 2019
This paper shows that because growth models in the tradition of Solow's and Romer's are framed in terms of production functions, they are equally subject to a criticism developed by, among others, Phelps Brown (1957), Simon (1979a), and Samuelson (1979). These authors argued that production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871740
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Transitional Dynamics of an Endogenous Growth Model with an Erosion Effect
Sequeira, Tiago Neves - 2022
The convergence features of an Endogenous Growth model with Physical capital, Human Capital and R&D have been studied. We add an erosion effect (supported by empirical evidence) to this model, and fully characterize its convergence properties. The dynamics is described by a fourth-order system...
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Impact of e-money on money supply : Estimation and policy implication for Bangladesh
Mehedi Nizam, Ahmed - 2021
With the rapid proliferation of mobile telephony and the establishment of an IT-enabled payment and settlement system, Bangladesh, nowadays, is experiencing a meteoric rise in the usage of mobile financial services (MFS). As more and more people are opting to use this service, a huge number of...
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