Coe, David T.; Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2022
We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit … knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of … be costly to obtain. Our empirical results, which are based on observations over the 1971-90 period for 77 developing …