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

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

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

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.

But rapid change entails immense pain.

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

D. Adaptive responses to the risks of rapid climate change

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

In a rapidly changing international scene, it is difficult to foresee much of the future.

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

Their received ideas about North Korea prevented them from recognizing a fast changing political reality.

Intense foreign competition and rapid technological change does not have to be a race to the bottom.

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.

In an era of rapid technological progress, creativity, and innovation, the global economic landscape can change rapidly.

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

In our fast changing world, people long for safety and certainty, and that is understandable.

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

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

It is time to begin an honest reflection about power and its purpose in today s rapidly changing world.

8. It can be difficult to anticipate the directions and consequences of rapid change because they can be either beneficial or detrimental.

Scientists have characterized several different types of adaptive responses to the impacts of climate change.

E business practices also required an enabling legal and regulatory environment, and solutions needed to be sufficiently flexible so as not to be rendered obsolete by rapid technological change and to adapt to the specific needs of developing countries.

The current global revolution is based on rapid technological advances that have dramatically decreased the cost of creating, finding, and transmitting information.

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.

In 2010, iSpring Presenter took the Gold in the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards in the Rapid Authoring category.

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.

The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty review conference will begin the work of adapting the NPT to our rapidly changing world.

Rapid environmental change associated with insecurity and losses of livelihoods undermine the resilience of societies and increase their vulnerability.

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

So we want to find the change in y over the change in x.

In addition, some adaptive responses to the risks of rapid climate change may offer benefits in terms of other global environmental problems.

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