technical progress

collocation in English

meaningsoftechnicalandprogress

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technical
adjective
uk
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/
relating to the knowledge, machines, or methods used in science ...
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progress
noun[U]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ɡres/us
/ˈprɑː.ɡres/
movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a ...
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(Definition oftechnicalandprogressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Technicalprogress, however, also pushes towards more changes and complexity.
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Technicalprogressand deforestation may therefore go hand in hand.
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Its decline would give a much-needed boost to output and totechnicalprogress.
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For low enough discounting, growing consumption is optimal even whentechnicalprogressis zero.
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Technicalprogresshas not left a single internal resource without an external substitute.
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It has also taught us thattechnicalprogresscreated quasi-markets in some areas.
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Yet costs are not static, incapable of being reduced throughtechnicalprogress.
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Many agronomists, faithfully echoed by agricultural historians, reckon that sharecropping hamperstechnicalprogress.
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One important incentive fortechnicalprogressis the ability of innovators to capture rents.
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He made important contributions to the theory oftechnicalprogress(1972).
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So my third essay was ontechnicalprogressand economic growth.
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The effects of sharecropping ontechnicalprogresshave never been properly tested, in so far as this author is aware.
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Further, we assumed, as in other models of endogeneous technological progress, that thetechnicalprogressfunctions are concave.
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This possibility is explored below by use of a dynamic simulation model oftechnicalprogressand pollution abatement.
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Regardless of thetechnicalprogresspossible in elucidating genetic influences on psychopathology, there is a sociopolitical context that affects progress.
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While economists are fascinated by short-term efficiency, historians focus on the negative effects of sharecropping ontechnicalprogress.
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This effect is permanent and cumulative over time, thereby incorporating price-inducedtechnicalprogressin the model.
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Two dynamic issues which stand out are the optimal time-path for global abatement, and the rate oftechnicalprogress.
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A different rate oftechnicalprogress, for example, would lead to a different path for the base case.
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During wartechnicalprogressis very marked.
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That industry is making amazingtechnicalprogress.
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It speaks of "promotingtechnicalprogress".
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We must not impedetechnicalprogress.
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The future rate will depend ontechnicalprogress.
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