Impact of telephone and satellite earth station installations on GDP : A model for rural areas of LDCs
Presents a method for estimating the impact on national development of installation of telecommunication facilities in rural areas of developing countries. A methodology developed by Hardy is applied to three groups of developing countries and a hypothetical rural region to estimate the impact on GDP per thin route satellite earth station installed over a ten year period. A logarithmic relationship between telephone density and impact on GDP per earth station is found, so that the impact per earth station increases with lower telephone densities. The model can be used to estimate the impact on national GDP of telephone installations and/or thin route earth stations in regions of low telephone density.
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1982
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Authors: | Hudson, Heather E. ; Hardy, Andrew P. ; Parker, Edwin B. |
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Telecommunications Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-5961. - Vol. 6.1982, 4, p. 300-307
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Elsevier |
Subject: | Telecommunications GNP Satellites |
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