Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America write by Alberto Chong. This book was released on 2020-02-29. Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development. It provides evidence using randomized and quasi-experimental designed studies for different information and communication technologies interventions. In evaluating their development impact a critical concern has been to contribute to the little existing evidence. In fact, whereas many ICT projects in the developing world have been promoted by multilateral organizations, bilateral aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations in recent years, the extent to which these interventions and policies actually contribute to the development of the region is unclear. The book provides evidence on what works and what does not.
Innovation and Economic Development
Innovation and Economic Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation and Economic Development write by Mario Cimoli. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Innovation and Economic Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the fruit of the research ECLAC has amassed, with ten chapters detailing the great strides that have been made of late in ICT. A distinguishing feature of this book is its multi-disciplinary approach to measuring the economic effects of these technologies, which incorporates the neo-classical growth accounting approach and the evolutionarystructuralistapproach. These approaches are noteworthy because, much like the primary message of ECLAC, they exemplify the pivotal importance of technical progress, productivity and structural transformation in economic growth. Innovation and Economic Development identifies several opportunities and challenges for bringing about a more dynamic role of ICT in the process of structural change and productivity growth and contends that accelerating the adoption and efficient use of ICT is essential to any strategy for further success.
Development Connections
Development Connections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development Connections write by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2011-04-25. Development Connections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The authors seek to discover how information and telecommunication technologies affect both the public and private sectors in Latin America and how they can optimize ICT returns to society.
The Jobs of Tomorrow
The Jobs of Tomorrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jobs of Tomorrow write by Mark A. Dutz. This book was released on 2018-04-10. The Jobs of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and average per-capita incomes, its impact on lower-skilled workers is more complex and merits clarification. Concerns abound that advanced technologies developed in high-income countries would inexorably lead to job losses of lower-skilled, less well-off workers and exacerbate inequality. Conversely, there are countervailing concerns that policies intended to protect jobs from technology advancement would themselves stultify progress and depress productivity. This book squarely addresses both sets of concerns with new research showing that adoption of digital technologies offers a pathway to more inclusive growth by increasing adopting firms’ outputs, with the jobs-enhancing impact of technology adoption assisted by growth-enhancing policies that foster sizable output expansion. The research reported here demonstrates with economic theory and data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico that lower-skilled workers can benefit from adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies biased towards skilled workers, and often do. The inclusive jobs outcomes arise when the effects of increased productivity and expanding output overcome the substitution of workers for technology. While the substitution effect replaces some lower-skilled workers with new technology and more highly-skilled labor, the output effect can lead to an increase in the total number of jobs for less-skilled workers. Critically, output can increase sufficiently to increase jobs across all tasks and skill types within adopting firms, including jobs for lower-skilled workers, as long as lower-skilled task content remains complementary to new technologies and related occupations are not completely automated and replaced by machines. It is this channel for inclusive growth that underlies the power of pro-competitive enabling policies and institutions—such as regulations encouraging firms to compete and policies supporting the development of skills that technology augments rather than replaces—to ensure that the positive impact of technology adoption on productivity and lower-skilled workers is realized.
Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean write by Wilson Peres. This book was released on 2010. Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book analyses the development of information societies in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides input for public policy on information and communications technologies (ICT) issues."--Provided by publisher.
