In the most general terms, a technology can be seen as a human-constructed means for achieving a particular end, such … as the movement of goods and people, the transmission of information or the cure of a disease. These means most often … entail procedures regarding how to achieve the ends concerned, particular bits of knowledge, artifacts and of course specific …

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 …

We extend the standard economic geography model by introducing regional differences in technology levels and by … sufficiently developed. Interregional knowledge spill-overs take place only when the initial technological gap is not too wide, and …

implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class …

A discussion of the theory of technology and economic growth suggests potentially negative implications for the impact … of the Internet on developing countries. Technology in general is undoubtedly central to the growth process, but … economists define technology in very broad terms. The impact of any particular, invented, technology is likely to be small. This …