But it is easier to block the effects of technological progress on economic integration, because integration also requires economic freedom.

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Driven mostly by technological progress and global integration, the speed of everything is going up and up, and this is now demanding that we run organizations in a different way.

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The next ten years saw a great change: accelerating deregulation, technological advance and global economic integration.

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Africa is embarking on a new path to technological innovation led by regional integration and organization.

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The Luddites understood that, which made them more coherent on the subject than some of today's sceptics, who oppose integration but not technological progress.

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Elaborate, based on the results of UNESCO policy advice to member states and dialogue with external donors and national stakeholders, science and technology policy documents and policy briefs with a view to facilitating the sharing of experiences, expertise and best practices on strategic programmes for the integration of scientific, engineering and technological activities in the national public investment programme.

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Technological progress, and (it should follow) increasing global integration, are in some ways natural and self-fuelling processes, depending chiefly on human ingenuity and ambition: it would be hard (though, as history shows, not impossible) to call a halt to innovation.

ECONOMIST: The case for globalisation

Sydney scored highest in the categories of global integration, having a skilled talent base and for its technological advancement.

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It would be naive to think that governments could let integration proceed mainly under its own steam, trusting to technological progress and economic freedom, desirable as that would be.

ECONOMIST: The case for globalisation