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In this paper, we assess the digitalization of Indian manufacturing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) by using the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s Prowess database consisting of around 800 manufacturing MSMEs for the period 1990-2019. Our primary objective is to answer two...
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Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability....
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A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27% of the …
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The lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the short to medium term to boost the output and incomes of individuals and enterprises in the informal sector, given the size and persistence of the sector in the region. In this...
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This paper presents the results of measuring cross-sectoral economic and technological effects, allowing to determine the degree of dependence between the segments that produce digital technologies and implement them. The basis for empirical calculations was the survey data of leaders among...
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The rise of the fourth industrial revolution (IR) is deeply embedded in a wider context of privatization of knowledge, rising costs of innovation and uneven distribution of capacity between countries. But debates on a ‘balanced' policy framework to tackle these issues have until now floundered...
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Implementation of IT innovations in insurance industry enhances actual business models and creates new ones. E-insurance refers to creating and providing insurance and connected financial services through digital solutions. In this paper the impact of IT usage and digitalization on insurance...
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digitization and demographic transition lead towards faster economic growth in Bangladesh. Results imply that economic growth is … significantly influenced both by digitization and the demographic transition. Estimation reveals that with an increase of 1 … decrease in the dependency ratio would increase the GDP by 7.2%, on average. The key driving factors for digitization are the …
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Austria’s transition to a digital economy and society is slower than in other high-income small open European economies. The rate and pace of utilisation of eight main ICT applications shows that Austrian firms follow peer country counterparts with a gap, which has widened in most areas in...
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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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