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(i) The implications of technological change for employment and skills

60. Technological change is a major factor in the employment of women.

Technological change is not all upside, and transitions can be painful.

Technological change profoundly affects the demand for labour and the structure of employment.

The high stakes that national economies have in technological innovation could encourage a closer scrutiny of the nature and direction of technological change.

Input relating to analysis of technological change implications on production patterns and investment decisions in selected areas 10 000

(a) Examining the gender related employment effects of policies such as export promotion or technological change

It emphasized that the scientific community and policy makers should work more closely together to grasp the implications of technological change.

7. In the late 1980s, international security concerns over the nature and direction of technological change were essentially twofold.

Most economists looking at it find that it's no longer globalization that's causing the median wage to drop, it's actually technological change.

Nevertheless, the process of technological change today is more widely diffused than it was even a few years ago.

CAMBRIDGE Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment.

However, technological change and the rapidly changing map of regional integration will create new challenges and opportunities for both Governments and corporations.

Nowadays, technological change is generated along at least three different paths to economic growth and development.

In carrying out its tasks as an institution, the United Nations should be promoting a more integrated approach to assessing the impact of technological change on international security.

But there is no denying that technological change nowadays has accelerated, potentially leading to deeper and more profound dislocations.

Still, even as technological change accelerates, nothing suggests a massive upward shift in unemployment over the next few decades.

Valeria, if you were looking at this map and you're thinking, well, what technological change could possibly shake up this, let's call it a world system connecting the parts of it together.

82. The 1980s was a time when a number of developing countries suffered devastating set backs in their attempts to adapt rapid technological change to their own cultural climates.

There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa, says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change.

Of course, this time technological change could be different, and one should be careful in extrapolating the experience of the last two centuries to the next two.

The most effective way of ensuring that their transfer will not contribute to weapons proliferation would be through greater transparency and better understanding of the nature and direction of technological change in general.

(h) Analyse the impact of technological change, including new and emerging technologies, on investment, production patterns and trade competitiveness in relation to national development objectives and priorities

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But efforts to block technological change have been futile in the past, and they would be unwise today.

Back of the envelope calculations suggest that, worldwide, technological change could easily lead to the loss of 5 10 million jobs each year.

17.2 The programme on science and technology for development is designed to enhance the capacity of Member States, particularly developing countries, to manage technological change in achieving sustainable development objectives.

3. Technological development

Change is happening, and the change that is happening is not one that is in software.

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Change in distance is equal to the average velocity.

At the same time, this is a period in which Governments are likely to examine the methods of technology assessment developed by industry in order to adapt them to decisions regarding the nature and direction of technological change.

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