impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly … paper employs an extension of the standard growth accounting framework, using estimates of stock of ICT capital (hardware …, software, and telecommunications equipment), to estimate the direct contributions to growth. The contribution of ICT to growth …

The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established … that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …

(ICT)? We analyze this question based on a growth accounting approach at the level of final output. This approach traces … productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … better products have become available to final users, in particular consumers, as a result of the diffusion of ICT. A main …

This paper distinguishes the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) sector to economic … accounts, the contribution of manufacturing ICT industries and ICT services is estimated from 1993-94 to 2001-02. Estimation … results show that the (a) ICT services have a dominant share in the ICT sector’s contribution to national and State income …

This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in … Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed only in the production of ICT, aggregate LP growth experienced a slowdown …

Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … the total economy and manufacturing level can be entirely accounted for by the greater size and faster growth of the ICT … medium term given the continued U.S. predominance in the crucial ICT sector. …