The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has always been a critical complement to technological advance. Emerging evidence suggests that the knowledge transfer benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI), and trade liberalization, for example, are enhanced by higher stocks of human capital. Second, technological change in the twentieth century has been...
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2003/05/30
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2010/07/01
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Cerrando la brecha en educacion y tecnologia
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Education & training
Citation
Perry,Guillermo.
Closing the gap in education and technology : Cerrando la brecha en educacion y tecnologia (Spanish). En breve ; no. 25 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/759571468776795236