In this study an attempt has been made to explore the role of
technology transfer in the economic growth of Iraq, through the
change in the technology itself for the period 1960-1978. For this
purpose the economy was disaggregated into seven sectors.
The experience of developed countries has shown that technical
change is one of the most important factors of economic growth
alongside, or even overshadowing, such factors as labour and capital.
In the light of technology transfer, developing countries have
the advantage of introducing high levels of advancement of knowledge
which can be used to induce domestic technical change at later
stages.
Technical change is normally defined as a shift in the production
function, and for this reason two forms of production function were
estimated and tested, i. e. the constant elasticity of substitution
and the Cobb-Douglas function. Also two specifications (constant and
variable) were assigned to technical change. To validate the use of
these, statistical tests were conducted to establish the optimum fit.
Then the selected form was used to simulate output levels for
comparison with actual figures. The techniques used for estimation
are both linear and non-linear. Data used are time series in real
terms of capital stock and output, as well as number of persons
employed.
Furthermore in order to judge the importance of technical change
to the growth of output on aggregate and sectoral levels, as regards
economic growth, comparisons were drawn with existing data from other
developed and developing countries, including centrally planned
economies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/3405 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Kadhim, Hatem Hatef Abdul |
| Contributors | Pickles, Tony |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Industrial Technology Department |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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