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How globalization is changing digital technology adoption : an international perspective
Škare, Marinko; Riberio Soriano, Domingo - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 6 (2021) 4, pp. 222-233
This paper examines how globalization influences the adoption of digital technologies. The purpose of the paper is to explain how globalization affects new technology adoptions. We use country-level data from the globalization index (KOF), digital adoption index (DAI), global competitiveness...
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Digital Technologies and the Global Economy's Productivity Imperative
Labaye, Eric - 2016
Global GDP growth has been propelled by two key factors over the past 50 years: growth of the size of the overall labor force, which doubled in the G20 countries as a result of brisk population growth, and rising productivity. Over the next half century, from 2014-2064, as a result of declining...
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Past, present, and intended digitalization around the world : leading, catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind
Samsami, Mahsa; Schøtt, Thomas - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 68 (2022) 3, pp. 1-9
, present, and future digitalization is developing globally and, in each society, depending on its resources. A survey of … digitalization as a global phenomenon and the pandemic as an external enabler that has promoted catching up and convergence in … digitalization. Still, ecovery is uneven and entailing divergence, as some societies are forging ahead while others are falling …
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Does digital technology enhance the global value chain position?
Li, Zhenghui; Lai, Qinyang; He, Jiajia - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 24 (2024) 4, pp. 856-868
Embedding new technology creates opportunities and challenges for the global value chain (GVC). Using country-level panel data from 59 economies in 2007–2018, we construct a fixed-effects model to investigate the relationship between digital technology and the GVC position. Moreover, we...
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning …
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Carbon Reduction Effects of Digital Technology Transformation : evidence from the Listed Manufacturing Firms in China
Zhou, Jingyu; Liu, Weibai - In: Technological forecasting and social change : an … 198 (2024), pp. 1-10
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture : comparative economic development ; insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
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Fuel for economic growth?
Gars, Johan; Olovsson, Conny - 2015
We set up an endogenous growth model in which the efficiency of both capital and fossil energy can be improved, whereas the efficiency of one alternative energy source is limited. With capital and energy as complements, there exist two steady states: one stagnant where energy is fully derived...
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Structural change and innovation in developing economies : a way out of the middle income trap?
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
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Distance to the Pre-industrial Technological Frontier and Economic Development
Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country's...
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