... industries rankin the top 15 by both measures, with the Telecommunications industry ranking first in both cases. The EmergingDigitalEconomy IIElectronic Commerce in theDigitalEconomy Page 930Address ... 1995,and at the same rate again from 1995 through the first quarter of 1999. Electronic Commerce in theDigitalEconomy Page 1343"GDP and theDigital Economy: Keeping Up With the Changes," ... while the following chapters examine IT industries and their impact on various facets of the U.S. economy. The value of e-commerce transactions, while still small relative to the size of the economy, ...
... Kahin The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, EnglandGDP and theDigital Economy: Keeping up with the ChangesBrent R. Moulton The perception is widely held that the growth of the digital economy 1 ... in the official statistics. Some features of the digital economy are captured perfectly well by the same data collectionsthat regularly provide information about the rest of the economy. The ... chapter focuses on the data needs and measurement chal-lenges associated with theemergingdigital economy. We muststart, however, by defining what we mean by thedigital economy. The dramatic growth...
... the Polar Code’s application to the Southern Ocean. Expanded reference to the Antarctic within the Code seemed necessary to gain further acceptance from the Antarctic community. The Environmental ... of the North Atlantic. From Labrador to Greenland, polar waters are north of 60° North; the boundary then proceeds from the southern tip of Greenland to Keflavik,Iceland, and then from the northern ... might operate in the SouthernOcean.Another specific difference posed by the Polar Code involves the exemp-tion of certain ships. While the Polar Code exempts warships (among others), it256 Lawson...
... the players in theeconomy and society irrespectiveof whether they reside and work in the developed countries or in the developing coun-tries. Thedigitaleconomy is transforming the lives of ... periphery due to theirinappropriate education or skills. They are further marginalized as the gap in the knowledge attained between themselves and those in the formal sectors (using the Internet ... welfare from the use of the technology by different sectors of the economy. The chapter focuses on the direct benefits of ICT growth, paying special attention to the service sector. But the role...
... Chapter IIELECTRONIC COMMERCE: THE LEADING EDGE OF THEDIGITAL ECONOMY * The resurgence of the U.S. economy coincides with the growing use of the Internet, including the rapid growth of electronic ... development. William M. Daley Digital Economy 2000 Page 376 U.S. Department of Commerce, TheEmergingDigital Economy , April 1998 and The EmergingDigitalEconomy II,June 1999. 7 Oliner ... encompass the IT sector have madeinformation the most important basis for creating value in the economy. The process of creating valuefrom information, throughout and across the economy, is the ultimate...
... files over the Internet, so their editor could become a Web browser,too. I told them I would give them the software outright; they would just have tohook it in. But they said the only way they would ... allthese participants who had to give so much of their time to learn about the Internet, to gather the facts, and then to write their interpretations ofwhat they observed.We thank as well the ... participants. The Internet economy is also thedigital economy. The content of cul-tural and material life increasingly became encoded in bits. A generationof children ‘‘growing up digital ’ understood the...
... files over the Internet, so their editor could become a Web browser,too. I told them I would give them the software outright; they would just have tohook it in. But they said the only way they would ... pur-chased at the lowest price. Yet, the problem for the infomediary was the same for the other businesses, that it ‘‘unbundled.’’ How can an infome-diary earn money if other companies can o¤er the same ... participants. The Internet economy is also thedigital economy. The content of cul-tural and material life increasingly became encoded in bits. A generationof children ‘‘growing up digital ’ understood the...
... on thedigital economy. The first tworeports were titled, The EmergingDigital Economy. This third edition has a new title, because the digitaleconomy and digital society are no longer emerging. ” ... Chapter IIELECTRONIC COMMERCE: THE LEADING EDGE OF THEDIGITAL ECONOMY * The resurgence of the U.S. economy coincides with the growing use of the Internet, including the rapid growth of electronic ... points overall.2 The rapid increase in these industries’ share of theeconomy after 1994is particularly impressive in view of both the rapid growth of theeconomy as a whole and the accelerated...
... beyond the scope of the present paper. Second, the option of extending the length of Executive Director’s terms on the Board is not considered since it falls outside the three categories of the ... shareholders in the Bank were granted the right to appoint their own Executive Director, while the other seven were elected Executive Directors, based on country constituencies. Over the years, the total ... that they undermine the legitimacy of the World Bank.13. ere is, therefore, a pressing need for the World Bank to get its voice reform process back on track. Unfortunately, the evolution of the...
... were not there, other financial servicesproviders might readily step in to take their place. This article examines the role of community banks in the U.S. economy. The first section of the article ... decliningsteadily since the mid-1980s, the number of new bank charters in the United States increased sharply during the second half of the 1990s,surpassing 200 at the end of the decade before falling ... the modest economies of scale that currently appear toexist in banking.III. CONCLUSIONSCommunity banks play an important role in the financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement the...
... computernetworks has led to theemerging “information society”. The need for workers to acquire a range ofskills and to continuously adapt these skills underlies the “learning economy . The importance ofknowledge ... regarding the implications of the knowledge-based economy for employment and the role of governments in the development and maintenance of the knowledge base.Identifying “best practices” for the knowledge-based ... knowledge-based economy is a focal point of OECD work in the field of science, technology and industry. This report discusses trends in the knowledge-based economy, the role of the science system and the...
... Education in the U.S. Economy The equations in the earlier studies estimating earningshad assumed that what was important was just the num-ber of years of schooling and not whether the workers ... fight poverty in the developing world.7Much of this section draws on the work of Haveman and Wolfe and the articles they cite in their studies.8This refers to the size of the economic pie ... in the state’s housing values, given the mobility of others fromother states.Brasington (1999) conducted another study that is rel-evant to measuring the tangible economic benefits of the quality...
... mattress. The influence is mutual.” Who needs the other more varies with American and international financial conditions. The more money the U.S. borrows, the more the American economy needs the ... If the value of the dollar depreciated, the trade deficit would decline, as the price of U.S. exports fell abroad and the price of imports rose in the United States.52 The magnitude of these ... decline in the trade deficit and dollar would not be troublesome for the overall economy. In fact, a slow decline could even have an expansionary effect on the economy, if the decrease in the trade...
... services The output method is theoretically the best way to meas- ure the Internet’s contribution. It is the approach used to calculate the contributions of most traditional sectors in the economy. ... G The U.K. Internet economy is enabled by a group of com-panies which allow traditional companies to conduct busi-ness online. These companies are the engine of the Inter-net economy. They ... analysis.Note: The sub-indices are scaled so that the geometric mean equals 100. T B C GIn addition the Internet creates ripples which move through the rest of theeconomy These...
... Asiaroleof the publicsectorinpoultrydevelopmentwillbearegulatoryfunctionfocusingonanimaldiseasepreventionandqualityassurance.In the early70s,localmilkproductionmet80percentoflocalconsumptionneeds.But the openeconomicpolicyandagrowingdemandresultedinasharpincreaseinimportsofmilkandmilkproducts.Asof2009,localmilkproductioncoversonly33percentof the nationalconsumption.63,876mtofmilkandmilkproductsvaluedatoverRs.30billion(US$296mn.)hasbeenimportedin2009anditrepresented2.1percentofSriLanka’sfoodimports.Hence,with the aimofreducing the drainon the country’sforeignexchangeresourcesandsupportingemploymentgenerationandfamilyincome,dairyindustrywillbepromotedascomplementaryeconomicactivityacross the widesectionof the populationbyintroducingimprovedbreeds,feedresources,betteranimalhealth,awelldevelopedcollectionandprocessingnetwork,goodresearchandextensionservices. The income the dairyfarmersearnfromtheircows’milkdependson the marketand the collectionsystems.Basedon the availabledata, the formaldairyprocessingindustrycollectsonlyaround50-60percentof the totalproduction.Inmostareas,milkiscollectedonceadayduetounavailabilityofapropercoldchain.Thus, the milkmarketingandprocessingatalllevelsneededtobedevelopedthroughestablishingpropercoldchainswith the supportof the privatesectorandprivatepublicpartnerships.Withthiseffort, the totalmilkproductionwillbeincreasedto the levelofselfsufciency.Indicator ... The AgriculturesectorinSriLankaplaysakeyrolein the country’seconomicdevelopmentanditsnewrolein the futurehasnowbeenredenedin the lightof the newdevelopmentvisionand the futureaspirationsof the nation.Atpresent,agriculturecontributesabout13percentto the country’sGDPandemploysabout33percentofitsworkforce. The governmenthasgiven the prioritytoenhance the domesticproductioninwhich the successofsuchapolicywaswelldemonstratedduring the periodwheretherewasaworldfoodcrisis.Of the totalcultivableland(2.9mnha),65percent(1.9mnha)iscultivatedwithagriculturalcrops.Paddyoccupies40percentof the agriculturalland.Coconut,teaandrubbertogetheraccountfor39percent. The remainder(21percent)isaccountedforallothercrops;othereldcrops,horticulturalcropsandotherexportcrops.IZ]]r-)Hma^k+*M^Z*+Kn[[^k0<h\hgnm+)17 ... Diversicationofproductionandexploitationofoffshoreanddeepseasheriesthrough the introductionofmoderntechnologygivinghighprioritytoefcientshingmethods.Itisalsoplannedtoreducepressureoncoastalresourcesthrough the implementationofsherymanagementprogrammes.SriLankapossessessuitablewaterbodiesthroughout the countryfordevelopingaviableinlandshing.Thus,developmentsoffreshwatercapturesheriesandaquacultureininlandwaterbodieshavealsobeenidentiedasaviableindustry.Thiscanbeimplementedthroughincreasingshseedproductionandintroducingthemintominorandseasonaltankswith the supportofcommunitybasedsherymanagement.18 - TheEmerging Wonder of AsiaThereisalso the necessityfordevelopingacompetitiveandregulatedseedindustrybyinvolving the privatesectorinseedproductionanddistribution.Strictquarantiningregulationswillbeputinplacewhenimportingseedsbyenacting the SeedActinordertoprotectandsafeguarddomesticagriculture. The traditionalroleofbankcreditinagriculturetofundseasonalproductionwillbereversedwith the budgetarydecisionof10percentmandatorylendingto the agriculturesectorbycommercialbanks. The CentralBankwillalsopromoterenanceschemeswithaviewtosupportingagriculturaldevelopmentinseveraldistricts.Inordertofurtherstrengthenthissector,newcreditschemeswillbeintroducedto the farmersinadditionto the 10percentmandatorylendingrequirement.Agriculturalbiodiversitywillbestrengthenedbyaccelerating the conventionalbreedingof the agriculturalsectortoensurehigheryield.Researchanddevelopmentrelatingto the agriculturewillbeexpandedforproblemsidenticationandproductivityimprovementin the sector.Researchinstituteswillbedeveloped,providingnecessaryinfrastructurefacilitiesandnewtechnologicalequipment.Humandevelopmentwillalsobestrengthenedbylinking the knowledgehubs.Extensionapproacheswillbedevelopedusingsocialmarketingconceptstoaddvaluethroughinformationandcommunicationtechnology.Inaddition,awarenessprogrammeswillalsobearrangedtodisseminateresearchndingsamong the farmersand the potentialfarmercommunity.+)**...