Using a new dataset on imports of technology and total factor productivity (TFP) over more than a century for the OECD countries, this paper tests for international technological transmission through trade. The empirical estimates suggest that imports of knowledge have been responsible for an almost 200% increase in TFP over the past century, but that the spillover effect has been highly uneven...

1 In early 2003 the OECD published a major report entitled The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries1 that summarized the main findings of the OECD growth project initiated in 1999. The objective of the project had been to explain the reasons for different growth experiences across OECD countries and to identify policies, institutions and other factors that could contribute to enhancing ...

Solid waste was an unavoidable by-product of most human activities. management played a significant role in reducing and increasing recycling the MSW sector. The purpose this study to discuss effects environmental factors on variables such as municipal solid (MSW), per capita, rate socioeconomic population economic performance from selected countries or economies. used OECD countries, namely, S...

Using a new dataset on imports of technology and total factor productivity (TFP) over more than a century for the OECD countries, this paper tests for international technological transmission through trade. The empirical estimates suggest that imports of knowledge have been responsible for an almost 200% increase in TFP over the past century, but that the spillover effect has been highly uneven...