Closing the gap in education and technology
By: De Ferranti, David...[et.al]
Publisher: World Bank ; Washington D.C. ; 2003Description: xiii, 216 p; illISBN: 0-8213-5172-9Subject(s): EDUCATION | TECHNOLOGY | EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY | TRAINING | EDUCATIONAL POLICY | PRODUCTIVITY | INNOVATIONS | LATIN AMERICA | CARIBBEAN | TRAINING POLICYSummary: Explores the idea that skills and technology interact in important ways in a relationship that fosters large differences in productivity and incomes across countries. It focuses on the gap facing Latin America and the Caribbean in both education and technology and the interactions between the two. Argues that skills, upgrading, technological change and their interaction are major factors behind total factor productivity growth and shows that in Latin American and Caribbean countries skills-based technological change is transferred faster due to trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows that have increased the level of education of the work force.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Explores the idea that skills and technology interact in important ways in a relationship that fosters large differences in productivity and incomes across countries. It focuses on the gap facing Latin America and the Caribbean in both education and technology and the interactions between the two. Argues that skills, upgrading, technological change and their interaction are major factors behind total factor productivity growth and shows that in Latin American and Caribbean countries skills-based technological change is transferred faster due to trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows that have increased the level of education of the work force.
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