On the Diffusion of Development: A Late-Industrializing Model

S.E. Dessy

Working Papers from Laval - Recherche en Energie

Abstract: The present paper develops a mechanism of technological transformation essentially built on two premises, namely, that most technologies needed for today's poor economies to get out of backwardness are already available in advanced industrialized economies, and that there is a circularity between skill accumulation and technological change.

Keywords: MODELS; TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J38 O14 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1996
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