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The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Kharas, Homi Jamshed; Plant, … - 2018
The authors assess the role of the multilateral development system and the reforms needed to support the new global agenda. There is an urgency to the reforms. The coming decades will see the largest urban expansion in history. More infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the...
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The world that choose the machine : an evolutionary view of the technological race in the history of the automobile
Amatucci, Marcos - In: International journal of automotive technology and … 15 (2015) 1, pp. 43-62
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An assessment
Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2017
Nuclear power was one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century, and it continues to play an important role in twenty-first century discussions about the future energy mix, climate change, innovation, proliferation, geopolitics, and many other crucial policy topics. This paper...
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Connectedness between crude oil, coal, rare earth, new energy and technology markets : a GARCH-vine-copula-EVT analysis
Jin, Feng; Li, Jingwei; Li, Guangchen - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 38, pp. 4469-4485
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Rules for border-crossing factor movements
Siebert, Horst - 2007
firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual … whether new technology is found. Except for TRIMS, an international investment code has not been established. Conventions have …
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? An econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Reenen, John Van - 1999
). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330338
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Cables, Sharks and Servers: Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We …. Our estimates suggest that the second effect dominates. Technology dampens the impact of spatial frictions by up to 80 … percent and increases, in net terms, the share of offshore trading by 21 percentage points. Technology also has economically …
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Benefits & costs of Kyoto
Shogren, Jason - 1999
The 1998 Kyoto protocol signalled a new earnestness of international intent toward addressing the perceived risk of climate change. Kyoto demands that developed nations turn their economies so as to hit differentiated, sub-1990 level carbon emission targets within the next decade or so. But when...
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ICT use in the developing world: an analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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