GLOBAL INTEGRATION & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (World Bank Trade and Development Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821363719 ISBN 13: 9780821363713

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2006

Synopsis

The importance of acquiring and adapting advanced foreign technologies for employment opportunities and economic growth in developing countries can scarcely be overstated. For 10 years the trade research group at the World Bank has undertaken outstanding and innovative empirical studies of the processes under which technology transfer occurs and its impacts on local economies. This volume brings together the fruits of this endeavour and offers a wealth of perspectives and timely information on this central issue for development. It should find a home on the bookshelves of all international development economists and technology specialists.

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Review

'This volume...offers a wealth of perspectives and timely information on this central issue for development.' -- Keith E. Maskus, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

About the Author

BERNARD M. HOEKMAN, a CEPR (Centre for Economic and Policy Research) Research Fellow, is the World Bank's Research Manager of International Trade in the Development Research Group and Senior Economist in the Bank's International Economics Department, USA. A former member of the GATT Secretariat, he is the co-author of The Political Economy of the World Trading System: From GATT to WTO and co-editor of Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union and Development, Trade and the WTO. BEATA SMARZYNSKA JAVORCIK is Senior Economist in the Trade Team of the

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0821363719
• ISBN 13: 9780821363713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Hoekman Bernard, Javorcik Beata Smarzynska