Tăng trưởng năng suất nhân tố tổng hợp ở khu vực Đông Á và Thái Bình Dương (EAP) đã chậm lại trong hai thập kỷ qua. Việc sự chững lại này xảy ra trong bối cảnh tiến bộ công nghệ diễn ra nhanh chóng là...
在东亚及太平洋(EAP)地区,过去二十年来全要素生产率的增长已显著放缓。为何这种放缓会出现在技术迅猛发展的时期,仍是一个值得探讨的问题。本书通过新颖的企业层面分析,深入研究了这一现象,识别出导致生产率放缓的关键因素,并提出了能够重新激发生产率这一经济增长关键驱动力的政策建议。
Di kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik (EAP), pertumbuhan produktivitas total faktor telah melambat selama dua dekade terakhir. Mengapa perlambatan ini terjadi di tengah kemajuan teknologi yang pesat merupakan...
ในภูมิภาคเอเชียตะวันออกและแปซิฟิก (EAP) การเติบโตของผลิตภาพรวมของปัจจัยการผลิตได้ชะลอตัวลงในช่วงสองทศวรรษที่ผ่านมา การที่การชะลอตัวนี้เกิดขึ้นในช่วงเวลาที่เทคโนโลยีก้าวหน้าอย่างรวดเร็วถือเป็นเรื่องที่น่าฉงน...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
East Asia and the Pacific, seen in the context of the world economy, stands out as a paragon of development. Despite the recent ravages of the pandemic and the persistent tensions of geopolitics, the region...
Recent U.S.-China tensions have raised the specter of technological decoupling. This paper examines the impact of U.S. export restrictions and technology licensing on Chinese firms’ innovation. It finds...
The arrival of cloud computing provides firms a new way to access digital technologies as digital services. Yet, capital incentive policies present in every OECD country are still targeted towards investments...
This report presents an ex-ante impact assessment of potential exposure to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for Colombian firms using 2018 data. The report builds on the framework of a recent World...
The authors examine job creation, job destruction, and net employment growth across 53 developing and emerging economies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our evidence draws on survey responses from 27,000...
This paper presents new evidence on the growth of digital technology in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses the largest and most comprehensive database available to analyze website birth dynamics...
Recent empirical work suggests that there are large agglomeration gains from working and living in developing country cities. These estimates find that doubling city size is associated with an increase...
Robots are rapidly becoming a key part of manufacturing in developed and emerging economies. This paper examines a new channel for how automation can affect international trade: quality upgrading. Automation...
Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP countries were...
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession...
This study highlights how COVID-19 has affected small and medium enterprises, drawing on newly released World Bank Enterprise Surveys in 13 countries. The study shows that firms of all sizes are severely...