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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age

Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age

Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy

This report summarizes a workshopâ€"Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

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0309179211

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9780309179218

The Telecommunications Challenge

Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Report of a Symposium

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy,Committee on The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies

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The Telecommunications Challenge

Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Report of a Symposium

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains in productivity, a phenomenon often referred to as the New Economy. To better understand the sources of these gains and the policy measures needed to sustain these positive trends, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. This workshop, entitled "The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies," brought together leading industry representatives and government officials to discuss issues generated by the rapid technological change occurring in the telecommunications industry and the regulatory and policy challenges this creates. The workshop presented a variety of perspectives relating to developments in the telecommunications industry such as the potential of and impediments to broadband technology.

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0309100879

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Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda

Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition

By: The World Bank;Government of Rwanda

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Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda

Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition

By: The World Bank;Government of Rwanda

A strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success-including a three-and-a-half-fold increase in per capita income since 1994--places Rwanda among the world’s fastest--growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a more positive form--of a nation on the rise, powered by human resilience, a sense of common purpose, and a purposeful government. Past successes and a sense of frailty have fueled aspirations for a secure, prosperous, and modern future. Sustaining high rates of economic growth is at the heart of these ambitions. Recent formulations of the nation’s Vision 2050 set a target of achieving upper-middle-income status by 2035 and high-income status by 2050. Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda: Innovation, Integration, Agglomeration, and Competition, a joint undertaking by experts from Rwanda and the World Bank Group, evaluates the country’s possibilities and options in this endeavor. The report identifies four essential drivers of growth--innovation, integration, agglomeration, and competition--and reforms in six priority areas: human capital development, export dynamism and regional integration, well-managed urbanization, competitive domestic enterprises, agricultural modernization, and capable and accountable public institutions.

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World Bank Publications

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1464812853

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9781464812859

Agricultural Investment and Productivity in Developing Countries

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Agricultural Investment and Productivity in Developing Countries

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Includes 8 papers by various authors.

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9251045534

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Economics

Making sense of the modern economy

By: The Economist,Richard Davies

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Economics

Making sense of the modern economy

By: The Economist,Richard Davies

The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic, now available for the first time in America. Richard Davies, economics editor of The Economist, takes us on a journey through the paper's own analysis of the state of the world's economies, how we reached this point and what to expect in the next decade. He explores: what's gone wrong since 2008, why it's happened and how we can stop it happening again; the shifting focus of economics from banking to labor economics; the future hopes and challenges for the world economy. Along the way, we encounter the global economy laid bare, from banks, panics, and crashes to innovative new policies to improve how markets function; from discussions around jobs, pay, and inequality to the promise of innovation and productivity; from the implications of emerging markets and the globalization of trade through to the sharing economy and the economics of Google and eBay. The result is a fascinating review of the global economy and the changing role of economics in the new world order.

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The Economist

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1610396162

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9781610396165

Economics: An A-Z Guide

By: Matthew Bishop,The Economist

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Economics: An A-Z Guide

By: Matthew Bishop,The Economist

Economics is all around us, crucial to every aspect of our lives. But how many of us know what an absolute advantage or a zero-sum game really is? The Economist's A-Z guide to economics explains the most important economic terms and concepts. Written with the clarity and wit for which the newspaper is renowned, it features bite-sized overviews of essential economic ideas. If you need to understand why a country's balance of payments is such a big deal, whether deflation is always a bad thing or exactly why John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman were so influential, then dipping into this guide will provide the answers. Primer, glossary, dictionary and reference, this book offers everything you always wanted to know about economics but were afraid to ask.

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161039657X

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Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age

Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age

The Telecommunications Challenge

The Telecommunications Challenge

Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda

Future Drivers of Growth in Rwanda

Agricultural Investment and Productivity in Developing Countries

Agricultural Investment and Productivity in Developing Countries

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Economics

Economics: An A-Z Guide

Economics: An A-Z Guide

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