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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries

Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020

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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Effect of information and communication technology on cashew nut export in Benin

Akpa, Armand Fréjuis; Chabossou, Augustin Foster - In: Research in globalization 8 (2024), pp. 1-7

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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Digitalization and international competitiveness : a cross-country exploration of the relation between firm-level ICT use, productivity and export

Vancauteren, Mark; Dzukou, Kevin Randy Chemo; Polder, … - NBB Conference Deglobalisation, Decarbonisation and … - 2024

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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Tourism, ICT and inclusive development: global evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022

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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Pandemic in the Network Society. the Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Spreading Features in Europe and Latin America

Milovidov, Vladimir - 2020

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 for Driving Competitiveness of Countries : Energy Weakness Magnitude, GDP Per Barrel and Barrels Per Capita

Coccia, Mario - 2015

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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Digitalization, quality of life and purchasing power

Tátrai, Márk János; Szabó, Roland Z. - In: Theory, methodology, practice 16 (2020) 2, pp. 97-102

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Trapped Between the Falling Sky and the Rising Seas : The Imagined Terrors of the Impacts of Climate Change

Goklany, Indur M. - 2012

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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Investor-State Arbitration : A New Threat to Global Access to Affordable Medicine

Ho, Cynthia M. - 2018

This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...

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Can Innovation Save Us? Understanding the Role of Innovation in Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic in ASEAN-5 Economies

Layos, Joshua; Peña, Paul John - 2020

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raises the question of whether innovation can save humanity. Indeed, as it always has, innovation is the path towards finding solutions such as vaccines, treatments and policies that mitigate the further spread of the virus. Since the announcement of a...

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