Is There a South-North Knowledge Gap?

Information Competencies: Bridging the North-south Knowledge Gap

Knowledge is readily available in middle-income developing countries through international information repositories on the Internet. However, most citizens from the Southern Hemisphere do not possess the information skills or information competencies to access, use and understand such knowledge wealth. Most economically evolving developing countries have made progress in education in recent dec...

Where there is no overlap, there is a gap.

Closing the Knowledge Gap in Irish Manufacturing – A North- South Comparison

For regions or nations which historically have had low levels of domestic R&D investment, such as Ireland, North and South, inward investment represents a potentially of inward knowledge transfer. Using data from large multi-national plants throughout Ireland this paper examines the geography of knowledge within Irish manufacturing focussing particularly on knowledge gaps and knowledge transfer...

Is There a Development Gap in Rationality?∗

We compare the rationality of choice under risk – utility maximization, stochastic dominance, and expected-utility maximization – of students from one of the best universities in the US and one of the best universities in Africa. The US subjects came nearer to consistency with utility maximization and the dominance principle, but there are no differences between the two samples in consistency w...

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