Telecommunications and Growth - Couverture souple

Stephenson, Phillip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639061411 ISBN 13 : 9783639061413

Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

Telecommunications infrastructure is recognized as a catalyst for economic growth. The literature has identified how infrastructure con-tributes to growth, ways that telecommunications specifically contri-butes, and empirically confirmed a significant, positive bi-directional relationship between telecommunications infrastructure and growth. More recently, the technological innovations in telecommunications in the 90s have sparked a debate about whether these technologies have created a "digital divide." This work reviews this underlying theory and the debates surrounding this subject. Data for this analysis include 79 countries for the years 1981-2000. The model is regressed using ordinary least squares, a panel-data method, and finally it is in-strumented to attempt to control for endogeneity. The instruments utilized in this investigation prove to be ineffective. The results of the empirical work confirm that there is a strong relationship between telecommunications and growth; that the technological revolution of the 1990s dramatically strengthened this relationship; and that these benefits are biased towards more developed countries, confirming the existence of a digital divide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639061411
• ISBN 13: 9783639061413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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• Personne responsable: non disponible