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Did colonial rule in Indonesia have a de-industrialising impact? Using the case of the cotton textile industry, this paper finds little evidence. Value added in the industry increased in Java during 1820-71, increased more than three-fold during 1874-1914 and doubled during 1934-41. Most...
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manufacturing sector, but firm-level empirical supports are limited. Using the inter-regional firm data of the garment industry … stagnation of garment industry in several African countries. …
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The movements on the world market suffered by the traditional textile industry bring us nowadays to reconsider the rebirth of the textile industry on new coordinates by the concentration of the latest technologies in order to satisfy the more and more demanding requests of the consumer. This...
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Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...
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FDI in the garment sector has been the single case of large-scale manufacturing investment in African low … yet been realized in Africa. This paper describes the spillover process in the Kenyan garment industry and investigates …
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robotics, which covers key aspects of industrial and service robotics, discuss technology foresight insights and inter …-linkages to robotics, and identify three critical technology roadmaps: the technological future of robotics, digitalisation and …In this article we discuss the futures of work and robotics. We evaluate key future trends in the field of robotics and …
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classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies … base is characterised by a considerable - but not impressively widespread - degree of pervasiveness; (iii) robotics and AI …
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This paper revisits the impact of population aging on economic growth. In order to understand the impact of population aging on economic growth, it is important to consider the changes in the entire age distribution of demography. Our empirical analysis indicates that a change in age...
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(AI) and robotics on employment. The first interest of this study is to ascertain, from the viewpoint of workers, what … and robotics. The second interest is to identify, from the viewpoint of consumers, what types of services are likely to be … replaced by AI and robotics. The results suggest that malleable/adaptable high skills acquired through higher education …
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This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-to-work transition regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4.0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training content to develop adaptability, it is not the only...
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