This study examines the individual and joint impact of technology transfer and in-house R&D on firms' productivity and export performance. We utilize a specially designed survey module on firms' technology competitiveness in Vietnamese manufacturing, which allows us to identify various forms of...

The paper examines the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank Enterprise Survey panel data for the Philippines...

We examine the impact of foreign-licensed technology and identifies channels to effectively leverage such technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank Enterprise Survey panel data for the Philippines covering 2009...

The paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects in developing countries and investigates the importance of the absorptive capacity of a firm and a country in realizing and facilitating FDI spillover. It uses data obtained from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys for 107...

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) and Demand Response (DR) offer unique benefits to reducing the electricity consumption, carbon emission, investment, and operational cost of generating cooling energy by bridging the gap between cooling energy demand and production. To provide comprehensive guidance...

This paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects from foreign to domestic firms in Indonesia and assesses the significance of geographical factors on FDI spillover. It uses firm-level data from the Indonesian Bureau of Public Statistics (BPS) covering the period from...

In this paper, I examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India, two largest transitional economies in Asia, have engaged in improving their innovation capability in the economic transition. First, I measured and compared innovation capability of both countries by using not only...

Labor income shares have been falling in many advanced and emerging economies within the last few decades, partly as a result of a combination of impacts from technology and increased global integration. This in turn is associated with the relatively slow growth of wages, especially for...

This paper analyzes the reasons for the middle income trap in Latin America, where countries have been at the middle income level for decades, and draws out lessons for Asia. The middle income trap captures a situation where a middle income country can no longer compete internationally in...

We examine the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects in developing countries and investigate the importance of the absorptive capacity of a firm and a country in realizing and facilitating FDI spillover. We use data obtained from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys for 107...