SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES, INDUSTRIAL REFORM AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN CHINA. CAN SOCIALIST PROPERTY RIGHTS BE COMPATIBLE WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CATCHING UP? [PDF]
This paper analyses the quest for technological progress in China, a large, semi-industrialized, socialist developing country. In the introduction, it is argued that international income convergence is not an automatic product of market forces. Therefore,
Alberto GABRIELE
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International Emissions Trading and Induced Carbon-Saving Technical Change: Effects of Restricting the Trade in Carbon Rights [PDF]
This paper examines the implications of restricting the tradability of carbon rights in the presence of induced technical change. Unlike earlier approaches aiming at exploring the tradability-technology linkage we focus on climate-relevant 'carbon-saving'
Heinz Welsch, Patrick Matschoss
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Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning [PDF]
In many cities in developing countries, clusters of small and medium enterprises create severe pollution problems. Because conventional regulatory approaches are typically ineffective in such situations, policy responses have increasingly focused on ...
Blackman, Allen, Kildegaard, Arne
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis [PDF]
We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has
Somesh Kumar Mathur
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REGIONAL PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES AND PROSPECT FOR CONVERGENCE IN BANGLADESH AGRICULTURE, 1964-1992 [PDF]
This paper applies the sequential Malmquist index to calculate multi lateral, multi-factor productivity (MFP) indices for agriculture in 16 regions of Bangladesh from 1964 to 1992 and examines convergence among regions.
Rahman, Sanzidur
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Design development of machine shop area for the cover KS6-57.017 manufacture including the study of the cutter micro geometrical deviations in cutting process by finite elements method [PDF]
, 2019 The thesis develops the design of machine shop area for manufacturing the cover and researching the deviations of micro geometrical parameters during the cutting process by finite elements methodCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. GENERAL-TECHNICAL CHAPTER 1.
Adusei, Ebenezer +1 more
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Productivity Growth in European Railways: Technological Progress,Efficiency Change and Scale Effects [PDF]
This paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multiple input distance function model
Heike Wetzel
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Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dryland Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders in Kenya [PDF]
This paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes for agriculture. Data from Kenya
Nyariki, D.M., Thirtle, Colin G.
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Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Chemia, 2016 A study during 36 months, was conducted in a conventional greenhouse (open type) and a geothermal greenhouse (closed type) of TEI Thessaly to determine the productivity, total phenols content, antioxidant activity and certain qualitative characteristics
Nikolaos GOUGOULIAS +5 more
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The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance [PDF]
In this study we analyze the micro-dynamics of catch up in Indonesian paper manufacturing using a two-country plant-level data set for the period 1975-1997.
Szirmai, Adam, Van Dijk, Michiel
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