The paper provides quantitative estimates of the productive capacities of the countries in the Asia- Pacific region and their evolution in the past 25 years. It updates the results for 2009 presented in the ESCAP’s Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2011 and details the...

The aim of this study is to provide evidence on the relation between specialisation patterns and productivity in manufacturing industry of thirty nine countries, both developed and underdeveloped, from 1981 to 2003. In particular, this study explores either “absolute specialisation” or...

Sanayileşme iktisadi kalkınmanın gerçekleştirilmesi açısından son derece önemlidir. Sanayi üretimindeki gelişmeler büyüme ve ekonomik kalkınmanın dinamiğini oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, sanayi üretimini etkileyen iktisadi değişkenleri belirlemek, sanayi...

Industrial policy should vary with the specific conditions of the various phases of a long wave of economic development. At considerable lag from world technological leaders the economy can get to "a structural trap". To escape this trap, the active state economic policy has to be based on the...

This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...

In this paper a Stochastic Frontier Model is used to examine the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector over the period 1996– 2009. TFP growth is decomposed into technical change (progress), technical efficiency change, and scale...

A tanulmány amellett érvel, hogy az egymást követő, általános célú, új technológiai paradigmát meghatározó technológiáknak nem mindegyike növeli a tőkeigényessé get. Ami az információtechnológiai forradalom inputarányokra gyakorolt hatását ille ti, egyes iparágakban...

Japánban lelassult a gazdasági növekedés, az ipar külföldre vándorol, vele együtt megkezdődött a K+F külföldre telepítése is, mindeközben pedig romlik a kutatás nemzetközi versenyhelyzete. Az .érett. gazdaság újabb szakaszában a K+F-től azt várják, hogy gyorsítsa meg a...

Magyarországon az utóbbi években több okból is az érdeklődés középpontjába került a gazdasági tevékenységek térbeli átrendeződése. A megnövekedett figyelem érthető, hiszen a kérdés jelentős társadalmi-gazdasági csoportok helyzetét befolyásolja, s a folyamat...

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...