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This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological … all industries to patent in ICT is distinctive when compared with the tendency to patent in other technologies. We find … that technological diversification in large companies has clearly occurred in ICTs. Non-ICT specialist industries …
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ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are … much in ICT. The second reason is that even if they have done so, they may not have invested enough in complementary … infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …
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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home....
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The introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) has altered the way society operates things. ICT is … encourage agricultural commodity exports. The study aims to investigate the effect of ICT on cashew nut export in Benin using an … farmers to better understand and use ICT. …
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We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries. …
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This study empirically examines the effect of tourism and ICT on inclusive development. Inclusive development is … approached as human development adjusted for environmental sustainability; ICT is based on mobile phones subscription rate … regression. The results of the linear model show that, tourism enhances sustainable development and ICT has a negative …
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The article examines a set of factors that determine the impact of network communication and network connections on the likelihood of contracting a new coronavirus in European and Latin American countries. The author presents several data sets to prove several suggestions:1) the generalized...
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Energy metrics is the development of a whole new theoretical framework for the conception and measurement of energy and economic system performances, energy efficiency and productivity improvements with important political economy implications consistent with the best use of all natural and...
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Some advocates of drastic greenhouse gas controls claim that the costs of global warming are underestimated and that a proper accounting of the full costs raises the specter of economic and political instability, conflict and mass migration as weak governments in developing countries with low...
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