Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content …