Le progrès, le transfert et le choix technologiques dans les pays en voie de développement (PVD): vers une approche plus réaliste du problème de la substitution

Eckhard Siggel
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Eckhard Siggel: Département d’économique, Université Concordia

L'Actualité Economique, 1982, vol. 58, issue 3, 303-322

Abstract: In this paper it is argued that the conventional estimation of production functions may be misleading for the study of technological progress and technology choice in developing countries. The analysis of technical progress and technology transfers requires empirical production functions which should reflect accurately the state of technology and productivity in a given country or region. The neoclassical production function embracing as an envelope all observations in an industry is likely to overstate the number of techniques already established in the region. It may therefore underestimate the technical progress achieved by further transfers. The problem lies in the very concept of technological progress which is defined as a shift of the universal production function and excludes movements along the production isoquant.

Date: 1982
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