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The role of education in economic development: a theoretical perspective

Ozturk, Ilhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …

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Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Post-War Brazil

Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...

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Knowledge and Technology – Implications for a strategic Design – Croatian Case

Lamza - Maronić, Maja; Glavaš, Jerko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

require predominantly applicative solutions to their problems. The implementation of the Bologna process in education of … the education process into a life-long learning process for economists. The transition process should define Croatia as a …

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Knowledge Transformation and Economic Development: The Role of Digital Technology- An Analysis

Herani, Gobind M.; Rajar, Allah Wasayo; Zaman, Noor; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

being transformed with an enormous speed through digital media. Getting education through technology is providing audio …, which prevents legal transformation of knowledge for globalisation of the world, research based education, and economic …

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Technology, Trade Specialization and Development: Jumping to Technology Development Era

Mellati, Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Developing countries often are characterized as producers and exporters of a few types of natural resource based goods. Intuition dictates that these countries should change their strategy from being merely merchandise producers to technology developers in order to experience higher level of...

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Absorptive capacity and structural congruence: the binding constraints on the acquisition of technology--an analytical survey of the underlying issues

Das, Gouranga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Inextricable links between international trade, growth and role of knowledge-creation are well-established in the economics literature. The issues of creation of technology, its diffusion and actual adoption have been discussed on both theoretical and empirical planes. Effective assimilation of...

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Reconciling Acemoglu and Sachs: geography, institutions and technology

Veiseh, Nima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper attempts to reconcile two models for sustainable economic growth in developing countries. I develop an empirical and theoretical case for how the geographic landscape of a country determines the ease with which it can assimilate foreign technologies and establish institutions...

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Technology, Growth and Trade: Schumpeterian Perspectives

Fagerberg, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

This is an attempt to apply Schumpeterian theory to the study of "international economics". The first chapter gives a brief out line of the Schumpeterian perspective, considers how it may apply (and has been applied) to the study of international economics and presents some preliminary...

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Maroc technologie et développement économique un modèle théorique

Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper proposes a model of reflection on the following fact: the Moroccan economy is not competitive and technological gap is wide between local industries and foreign firms. This observation leads us to organize this debate by offering a rigorous theoretical framework to better understand...

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Foreign direct investment, technology transfer to the South and competition for the North: towards co-operative institutional arrangements between the North and the South?

Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Abstract The last decade has witnessed a very fast growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) - this both reflects and extends the globalization of production. Although the greater part of FDI is still carried out by multinationals of one advanced country investing in another, a significant and...

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