Download or read book Globalization of Technology written by Proceedings of the Sixth Convocation of The Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological revolution has reached around the world, with important consequences for business, government, and the labor market. Computer-aided design, telecommunications, and other developments are allowing small players to compete with traditional giants in manufacturing and other fields. In this volume, 16 engineering and industrial experts representing eight countries discuss the growth of technological advances and their impact on specific industries and regions of the world. From various perspectives, these distinguished commentators describe the practical aspects of technology's reach into business and trade.
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change written by United States; Congress; Joint Economic Committee; Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Technology and National Security and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and China written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Technology and National Security and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe and China written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Technology and National Security and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Productivity written by Alistair Dieppe and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and discusses a wide range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth. The book also provides a far-reaching data set of multiple measures of productivity for up to 164 advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies, and it introduces a new sectoral database of productivity. The World Bank has created an extraordinary book on productivity, covering a large group of countries and using a wide variety of data sources. There is an emphasis on emerging and developing economies, whereas the prior literature has concentrated on developed economies. The book seeks to understand growth patterns and quantify the role of (among other things) the reallocation of factors, technological change, and the impact of natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is must-reading for specialists in emerging economies but also provides deep insights for anyone interested in economic growth and productivity. Martin Neil Baily Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Chair, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers This is an important book at a critical time. As the book notes, global productivity growth had already been slowing prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and collapses with the pandemic. If we want an effective recovery, we have to understand what was driving these long-run trends. The book presents a novel global approach to examining the levels, growth rates, and drivers of productivity growth. For anyone wanting to understand or influence productivity growth, this is an essential read. Nicholas Bloom William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University The COVID-19 pandemic hit a global economy that was already struggling with an adverse pre-existing condition—slow productivity growth. This extraordinarily valuable and timely book brings considerable new evidence that shows the broad-based, long-standing nature of the slowdown. It is comprehensive, with an exceptional focus on emerging market and developing economies. Importantly, it shows how severe disasters (of which COVID-19 is just the latest) typically harm productivity. There are no silver bullets, but the book suggests sensible strategies to improve growth prospects. John Fernald Schroders Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness and Reform and Professor of Economics, INSEAD
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by United States Congress Joint E Policy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Global Economic and Technological Change, Vol. 3 Asia occupies a special place in Japan's economic strateg, although as a region it lags behind North America and Europe as a target of Japanese fdi. In the face of the higher yen and a serious domestic labor shortage, Japanese companies moved rapidly to relocate high labor-content production to countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and more recently, Indonesia and coastal China. Japanese companies took these actions both to maintain their competitiveness in global markets and as an entry point into the growing, but still protectionist, regional markets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Klaus Schwab and published by Currency. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Download or read book No Ordinary Disruption written by Richard Dobbs and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges. The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking all the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy: the rise of emerging markets, the accelerating impact of technology on the natural forces of market competition, an aging world population, and accelerating flows of trade, capital and people. Our intuitions formed during a uniquely benign period for the world economy -- often termed the Great Moderation. Asset prices were rising, cost of capital was falling, labour and resources were abundant, and generation after generation was growing up more prosperous than their parents. But the Great Moderation has gone. The cost of capital may rise. The price of everything from grain to steel may become more volatile. The world's labor force could shrink. Individuals, particularly those with low job skills, are at risk of growing up poorer than their parents. What sets No Ordinary Disruption apart is depth of analysis combined with lively writing informed by surprising, memorable insights that enable us to quickly grasp the disruptive forces at work. For evidence of the shift to emerging markets, consider the startling fact that, by 2025, a single regional city in China -- Tianjin -- will have a GDP equal to that of the Sweden, of that, in the decades ahead, half of the world's economic growth will come from 440 cities including Kumasi in Ghana or Santa Carina in Brazil that most executives today would be hard-pressed to locate on a map. What we are now seeing is no ordinary disruption but the new facts of business life -- facts that require executives and leaders at all levels to reset their operating assumptions and management intuition.
Download or read book Finance Development September 2014 written by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter discusses various past and future aspects of the global economy. There has been a huge transformation of the global economy in the last several years. Articles on the future of energy in the global economy by Jeffrey Ball and on measuring inequality by Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Berg are also illustrated. Since the 2008 global crisis, global economists must change the way they look at the world.
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Technology and National Security and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change written by United States; Congress; Joint Economic Committee; Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Global Economic and Technological Change, Vol. 3 Representative Hamilton. The Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee will come to order this morning in order to examine Japans role in the economies of the Asia-Pacific region and the consequences for the United States. We are fortunate to have before us a distinguished panel of experts to discuss these issues and other aspects of our economic relations with Japan and other Asian powers. Dr. Richard P.Cronin is a specialist in Asian affairs with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He has contributed a paper entitled A Japan-Dominated Asia-Pacific Region? to the Joint Economic Committees 1990 compendium of studies on Japans economic challenge. Robert E. Driscoll is president and executive director of the US-Asean Council for Business and Technology, a nonprofit organization, whose members are business firms with trade and investment interests in the Asian-Pacific region. Dr. Hugh Patrick is a professor of international business and director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a leading scholar of the Japanese economy and Pacific basin economic relations, and is a member of the U.S. National Committee for Pacific Basin Economic Cooperation. Gentlemen, we are very pleased to have each of you with us. We look forward to your statements. Those statements, of course, will be entered into the record in full. We would ask that you keep your opening remarks to not more than 10 minutes so that we can turn to questions. Before you begin, the Chair, without objection, will enter into the record a statement on "The United States and Japan Can Work Together for Peace" by Congressman Stark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Technology and Global Industry written by Harvey Brooks and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growth in a Time of Change written by Hyeon-Wook Kim and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation. The project is a collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Korea Development Institute. Part I of the book looks at key elements of change from a global perspective. It analyzes how technological change, shifts in investment, and demographic transition are affecting potential economic growth globally and across major groups of economies. The contributors explore possible scenarios for the global economy as the digital revolution drives rapid technological change, including impacts on growth, jobs, income distribution, trade balances, and capital flows. Technology is changing the global configuration of comparative advantage and globalization increasingly has a digital dimension. The implications of these developments for the future of sectors such as manufacturing and for international trade are assessed. Part II of the book addresses new issues in the growth agenda from the perspective of an individual major economy: South Korea. The chapters in this section analyze how macroeconomic developments and technological change are influencing the behavior of households and firms in terms of their decisions to consume, save, and invest. Rising income and wealth inequalities are a major concern globally. Against this backdrop, trends in the labor income share and wage inequalities in South Korea are analyzed in terms of the role played by technology, industrial concentration, shifts in labor demand and supply, and other factors. Throughout the book, the contributors, in their analysis of both global and Korea-specific trends and prospects, place emphasis on drawing implications for policy.
Download or read book Technology Culture and Competitiveness written by Christopher Farrands and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between technological innovation and global political and economic change? How does technology relate to the competitive advantage of nations? A team of outstanding scholars provide the answers.
Download or read book Global Economic and Technological Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Global Economic and Technological Change: Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and China, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology and National Security of the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session; June 8 and July 27, 1992 Senator Bingaman. The Subcommittee hearing will come to order. The hearing marks an historical watershed in several respects. Today, we re receiving the last reports of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency on the Soviet Union, and their first on Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union. As everyone is aware, the Soviet Union was dissolved as a political entity in December of last year and the republics that made up the USSR reformed themselves as independent, sovereign republics. The reports that we receive today will review economic performance and defense spending and related activities in 1991, which was the last year of the USSR's existence. The intelligence agencies will also report on what has occurred in the republics thus far in 1992, the first year of their existence since the breakup of the Soviet Union. As I understand what's been delivered to us now, we have a CIA report on the former Soviet Union. We have a CIA report on Eastern Europe. And we have a CIA report on Moscow's defense spending cuts accelerate. And then we also have a statement by the Defense Intelligence Agency that covers that whole range of issues, as I understand it. In addition to having this broad range of issues reported on today, this hearing will be done in open public session, which is a circumstance that was not possible during the long period of the Cold War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
