Cet article est dédié à l'analyse des facteurs qui influencent l'intensité d'usage des TIC par les firmes industrielles rurales vs.urbaines. L'approche empirique développée prend appui sur deux enquêtes l'enquête COI réalisée en 1996 sur un échantillon représentatif de firmes...

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...

Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...

Radical changes took place with respect to several agricultural policies in Ethiopia in 1990-91. Different agricultural technologies were being delivered by several international agencies. Shifts in government policies and technological intervention would induce changes in the production...