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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound macroeconomic policies, as well as to a favorable external environment. This book focuses on these...
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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263968
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Impactul Noilor Tehnologii Informationale Asupra Societatilor Comerciale - The Impact Of The Newest Informational Technologies On Companies (Romanian version)
FATU, Associate Professor Ph.D. Virgil Constantin; … - In: Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - … 1 (2011) February, pp. 29-37
The Internet technologies and applications have rapidly developed, opening new communication, collaboration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009204922
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Marketing Study of the Use of Internet Opportunities as a Pre-requisite of Innovation Development
Ziukova Alina O.; Zyukova Iryna O. - In: Business Inform (2014) 3, pp. 386-390
technologies. In the course of the content analysis the article considers evolution of the Internet market and the broadband access … telecommunication services (1000 respondents) provided grounds to understand vision of the future market of Internet technologies by … the effect of use of Internet technologies lies in acceleration of business processes, overcoming transaction barriers and …
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Euro Area Policies; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper on Euro Area Policies underlies global rebalancing of accounts. From a growth-accounting perspective, slower growth in the capital-labor ratio seems to be the main driver behind the deceleration in labor productivity. The increase in bilateral trade was accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825029
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United States; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity (TFP) growth is a broad phenomenon that encompasses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825041
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Canada; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This paper explores the factors that have led to a Canada-U.S. productivity gap using a sectoral growth accounting approach. Both fiscal and monetary policies have had significant effects on the saving rate. The Canadian dollar’s appreciation was followed by a protracted period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825117
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You Say You Want a Revolution; Information Technology and Growth
Morsink, James; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769153
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Political Risk Aversion
Valderrama, Laura - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even under irreversible voting decisions, in contrast with Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528646
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Enhancing Rural Livelihoods
Matthews, Paul; Young, John - eSocialSciences - 2007
defined broadly to include broadcast media as well as internet and wireless technologies. [id 21 Insights, Issue 68]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528305