can't others around the world do the same? If 8 million entrepreneurs in China-one third of them women-can use an e … transformational effects that digital technologies are supposed to deliver? Two main reasons. First, nearly 60 percent of the world … a tool for state control and elite capture. The World Development Report 2016 shows that while the digital revolution …

This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of … examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and … provincial levels. At the global level, factors such as education, innovation, judicial independence, and investment are …

authors find that the stock of human capital, the level of domestic innovation and technological adaptation, and the level of ….15 percentage point. In terms of innovation, the authors find that a 20 percent increase in the annual number of USPTO patents … to increase by 0.11 percentage point. This paper a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World Bank …