This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.

This paper outlines the most appropriate information technology approaches and methodologies that can be adopted and applied to built a nationwide information infrastructure that would provide enhanced support for strategic and operational decision making in a developing countries.

This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.

This paper investigates the role of social learning in the diffusion of a new agricultural technology in a developing country: Ghana. We use unique data on farmers' communication patterns to define each individual's information neighborhood, the set of others from whom he might learn. Our...

The study reported here uses a survey technique to explore corporate Internet use in developing countries. A major conclusion is that such use is extensive, considering deficiencies in telephone networks in many countries and the relative newness of the technology. Most companies surveyed here...

This paper investigates a model with tachnological cycles induced by shifts in technologies. The key feature is that technological development occurs partly by discrete replacement of obsolete technologies, partly by continuous innovation of components for a pervasive general purpose technology....

In this paper we draw upon a recent body of evidence, with particular reference to material produced in the context of an ongoing OECD project on growth. We present an international comparison with special attention given to development in trends of labour productivity, allowing for human...

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada and to quantify their importance. The model also provides procefures for consturcting various economic time series. We find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to...