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Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in … incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …
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assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares …--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and …
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Classical economics was both evolutionary and institutional. With the rise of neoclassical economics, both the evolutionary and the institutional aspects were squeezed out of main line economic theory. The last quarter century has seen a rebirth of both traditions, but as minority intellectual...
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Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity … growth was similar in Canada and the Europe, but only half that in the United State. In terms of the contribution of ICT …
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reform as particularly important in fostering productivity growth: sharper competition; greater openness to trade, investment …Australia has historically been Canada's poorer cousin. But a pick-up in productivity growth in the 1990s has raised … growth. He first points out that during the first half of the 20th century Australia enjoyed one of the highest levels of …
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the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity … growth during the 1945-73 period was in large part due to the solid macroeconomic performance of the period, a theme not …
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Zvi Griliches's contributions to the economics of technology and growth are identified. Included is a discussion of his … important unanswered questions in the economics of technology and growth. … contributions on: the determinants of differences in speed of adoption of innovations; the use of patents to measure technology; the …
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and gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but technology itself is the product of mental labor … productivity increases (growth) in general. P. Romer provides a more specific reply: technological change or the growth of new … of human mind. In other words, knowledge on production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge provides the premises …
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change can display rapid growth, as in modern growth ‘miracles.’ In these economies policies that promote technology inflows …<Para ID="Par1">This paper studies the interaction between technology, a public input that flows in from abroad, and … human capital, a private input that is accumulated domestically, as twin engines of growth in a developing economy. The …
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