Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries

Many of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and adjustment to climate change--hinge on adopting better technology, a key driver of economic development. Access to...

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Main Authors:	Cirera, Xavier, Comin, Diego, Cruz, Marcio
Format:	Report
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2022
Subjects:	COVID-19 CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Online Access:	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099825106302219640/p17088209e255d0b40bbf40847e1e110f67 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37527

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spelling	okr-10986-375272022-07-06T20:00:15Z Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries Cirera, Xavier Comin, Diego Cruz, Marcio COVID-19 CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION Many of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and adjustment to climate change--hinge on adopting better technology, a key driver of economic development. Access to technology is not enough: firms have to adopt it. Yet it is precisely the uptake of technology that is lagging in many firms in developing countries. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big uptake of technology, especially digital technologies. Bridging the Technological Divide: Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries takes advantage of this shift to delve into which firms have adopted and use technologies and to what purpose. To do so, it proposes a new approach to measure and understand the adoption and use of technologies by firms. Specifically, it leverages a new data collection instrument, the Firm-level Adoption of Technology (FAT) survey, which provides a very rich characterization of the technologies used and the processes of adoption by firms in developing countries. This book helps open the “black box” of technology adoption by firms. The seventh volume in the World Bank’s Productivity Project series, it will further both research and policy that can be used to support technology adoption by firms in developing countries. 2022-06-10T20:35:47Z 2022-06-10T20:35:47Z 2022-06-15 Report https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099825106302219640/p17088209e255d0b40bbf40847e1e110f67 978-1-4648-1826-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37527 The World Bank Productivity Project; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank World
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description	Many of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and adjustment to climate change--hinge on adopting better technology, a key driver of economic development. Access to technology is not enough: firms have to adopt it. Yet it is precisely the uptake of technology that is lagging in many firms in developing countries. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big uptake of technology, especially digital technologies. Bridging the Technological Divide: Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries takes advantage of this shift to delve into which firms have adopted and use technologies and to what purpose. To do so, it proposes a new approach to measure and understand the adoption and use of technologies by firms. Specifically, it leverages a new data collection instrument, the Firm-level Adoption of Technology (FAT) survey, which provides a very rich characterization of the technologies used and the processes of adoption by firms in developing countries. This book helps open the “black box” of technology adoption by firms. The seventh volume in the World Bank’s Productivity Project series, it will further both research and policy that can be used to support technology adoption by firms in developing countries.
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title	Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries
title_short	Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries
title_full	Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries
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Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries

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