Exporting and Technology Adoption in Brazil
Exporting and Technology Adoption in Brazil

Author: Xavier Cirera

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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There is limited evidence on the role of participating in international trade in the diffusion of technologies. This paper analyzes the impact of exporting on firms' adoption of more sophisticated technologies, using a novel dataset, the Firm-level Adoption of Technology survey, which includes more than 1,500 firms in Brazil. The survey provides detailed information on the use of more than 300 technologies, combined with data from Brazil's census of formal workers and export data from the Ministry of Trade. To address critical endogeneity concerns, the analysis applies difference-in-differences with multiple periods to examine the effects of entering export markets on technology adoption. The findings show that exporting has a positive effect on firms' likelihood of adopting advanced technologies in business functions related to business administration, production planning, supply chain management, and quality control, which are important for managing tasks associated with export activities.

Technology, Competitiveness and Radical Policy Change
Technology, Competitiveness and Radical Policy Change

Author: Jrg Meyer-Stamer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-22

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1135777292

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This volume investigates the limited effectiveness of technology policy in the inward-oriented industrialization model of the past. It looks at the political structures that compromise the transition to the development model, and the restructuring effort within Brazilian industrial firms.

Firm-Level Technology Adoption in the State of Ceara in Brazil
Firm-Level Technology Adoption in the State of Ceara in Brazil

Author: Xavier Cirera

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13:

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This paper uses a novel approach to measure technology adoption at the firm level and applies it to a representative sample of firms in the state of Ceara in Brazil. The paper develops a new measure of technology adoption at the firm level, which identifies the purpose for which technologies are used and the intensive and extensive uses. The survey allows for establishing several new stylized facts for Ceara. First, most firms still rely on pre-digital technologies to perform general business functions, such as business administration, marketing, sales and payments, or quality control. Second, these technology gaps are larger in smaller firms, in the manufacturing sector, with large gaps when it comes to Industry 3.0 and digitalization, and especially large in Industry 4.0 technologies. The paper also presents some evidence that the main challenge to accelerate technology adoption is lack of firm capabilities. Despite the availability of technology extension services in the state, firms are still unaware of the availability of support and unwilling to upgrade technologies.

Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains in Brazil
Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains in Brazil

Author: Joana Silva

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2015-08-26

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1464806454

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Continued social and economic progress in Brazil will depend on high employment, sustained labor productivity and income growth, and opportunities for the poor and disadvantaged to upgrade their own productivity and convert it into sustainable incomes.

The Future Of Brazil
The Future Of Brazil

Author: William H. Overholt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1000301621

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This book analyzes Brazil's foreign relations, politics, domestic economy, international economic relations, and relations with multinational corporations. It identifies the balance-of-payments crisis in the late 1970s as the key to Brazil's economic and political future.

Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil
Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil

Author: Alberto Rodriguez

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0821374397

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The research presented in this volume explains how well-educated workers can interact with physical capital inputs to innovate and add value to processes, products and services, ultimately creating a multiplier-effect on macroeconomic growth. It fills a significant gap in the existing literature by providing a detailed map of the relationship between microeconomic inputs such as health and education services and macroeconomic outputs such as growth. Grounded in economic theory and backed by economic analysis, Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness makes a compelling argument that human c.