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Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework. An exogenous technology shock transmitted via trade from the United States induces productivity growth in developing regions. This spillover capture-aided by absorptive capability, better governance and institutions, technological symmetry and social acceptance-causes income to increas

The idea of organization development (OD) was introduced in India through the work of behavioural scientists working with the technology of sensitivity training (T-Group). In their work, task, perhaps the most important structure of an organization, was ignored which led to focus on creating happy and docile organizational personnel. The approach of social scientists based on Wilfred Bion's path-breaking work, which led to the development of what came to be known as the work based on the Tavistock framework that focused on creating conditions for the personnel to manage their relationship with various organizational structures and resources, was brought to India by the present author at the end of 1972.

This paper develops a model of endogenous trade-mediated productivity spillover in which jointly trade-intensity, capital-intensity of production, and skill-intensity for adoption of technology from an exogenously available stock of world knowledge determine firm's productivity. The representative firm, in the process of maximising profit (or minimising costs), takes into account the benefits of technological improvements embodied in imported intermediates. Sectors with higher skilled labour intensity will have an advantage in extracting the 'bonuses' from spillovers. The framework is useful for exploring technology adoption, considering wage premium, investigating innovative changes in sectors, and analysing productivity differences.