Volume 13, Issue 2: Comparative Advantage in an Automated World

 

Recent Submissions

  • Some Thoughts on Changing Comparative Advantage 

    Boon, Gerard K. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY Automation induced by microelectronic technological change will ensure that a few Northern countries which have a lead on the basis of R and D, practical applications and faster diffusion, will have a comparative ...

  • Technology and the North?South division of labour 

    Rada, Juan F. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY Historically, too little attention has been paid to the impact of radical technical change on development strategies. In the current context of slow rates of economic growth, electronics based innovations are ...

  • Editorial 

    Kaplinsky, Raphael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)

  • Electronics and Industrial Development 

    Braun, Ernest (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY Electronics related technologies are becoming so central to industrial development that many developing countries are tempted to make them the cornerstone of their future strategies, as the steel industry was in ...

  • The Asian Electronics Industry Looks to the Future 

    Clarke, Jeremy; Cable, Vincent (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY In recent years, the electronics industries in some Idcs have become a focus of attention, due to their success in creating employment and promoting exports. This article assesses the future of the Asian electronics ...

  • Microelectronics and the Garment Industry: not yet a perfect fit 

    Hoffman, Kurt; Rush, Howard (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY The garments sector is a major source of exports and employment in many Idcs. If automated technology were to become available, comparative advantage might revert to the developed countries. This is lent further ...

  • Electronics and the Technology Gap—the Case of Numerically Controlled Machine Tools 

    Jacobsson, Staffan (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY This article is concerned with the introduction of electronic control devices (‘numerical controls’) in machine tools. This has provided substantial benefits to firms in that it saves both capital and labour, ...

  • Is There a Skill Constraint in the Diffusion of Microelectronics? 

    Kaplinsky, Raphael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY The primary concern of this contribution is to determine whether the skills required to use microelectronics?related innovations are a constraint to developing countries adopting these technologies. Based upon a ...

  • The UK Council for Computing Development 

    Bogod, Julian L. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/03/1982)
    SUMMARY If developing countries lack expertise in the utilisation of computers, some developed countries such as the UK may be able to provide aid in this sector. The UK Council for Development, consisting of representatives ...