information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the … paper finds that credit and stock market development tends to foster ICT development. Financial structure, however, does not … appear to have any significant relationship with ICT development. The conclusions of the paper highlight the role of …

This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent … (TFP) growth is a broad phenomenon that encompasses non-ICT producing sectors, consistent with the view that ICT is a â …

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 …

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do … benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches … to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding …

This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on … of the channels through which mobile phone development influences economic growth. In estimating the impact of ICT on … economic growth, we use a wide range of ICT indicators, including mobile and fixed telephone penetration rates and the cost of …