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as internet access and internet use. We argue that the global digital divide, as measured by cross-country differences in … internet access and use, could be explained by cross-country differences in ethnic heterogeneity. We use indices of ethnic and … of a negative association between ethnic heterogeneity and the use and access of internet. Thus, cross …
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During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …
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development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
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derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …
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intellectual property more effectively. Finally, they show that the spread of access to the Internet is negatively correlated with …
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Technological changes are "the main engine of capitalism and evolution" (A. Toffler), "the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy" (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on the...
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During the last few decades, India’s trade with the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries has grown substantially, especially in the area of Information Technology (IT) services. The definition of IT services now includes a plethora of IT-enabled services (ITeS) directed to specific...
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