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The Causal Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Foreign Direct Investment
Gholami, Roghieh; Lee, Sang-Yong Tom; Heshmati, Almas - eSocialSciences - 2010
technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725987
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The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty
Zhao, Jinhua - eSocialSciences - 2010
An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new technologies to developing countries. Adoption of new technologies can be hindered by uncertainties about their efficiency. This paper studies the role of information exchange between adopters and others about a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752773
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The Global Labour Standards Controversy: Critical Issues for Developing Countries
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Ann - eSocialSciences - 2014
This policy study seeks to move the debate on labour standards beyond the present stalemate onto a more constructive plane. While closely examining the economic arguments in this controversy, it is also concerned with the broader political and moral dimensions. The authors suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945326
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A Study of Policies Related to Science Education for Diversity in India
Chunawala, Sugra; Natarajan, Chitra - eSocialSciences - 2014
promoting science education by introducing schemes, fellowship programs, encouraging use of ICT, and advocating science events …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945384
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‘Autonomy On-line’: Indymedia and Practices of Alter-Globalisation
Pickerill, Jenny - eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines Australian Indymedia collectives as a means to improve understanding of the practices of alter-globalisation movements. Indymedia, which emerged around the anti-World Trade Organisation protests in Seattle in 1999 is an attempt by media activists to offer new forms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528192
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Enhancing Rural Livelihoods
Matthews, Paul; Young, John - eSocialSciences - 2007
The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by … country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528305
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Decrypting E-Governance: Narratives, Power play and Participation in the Gyandoot Intranet
Sreekumar, T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
The mapping of the social and political constraints that marginalized communities and individuals encounter in their interface with e-governance projects, perhaps, has implications for the optimistic political vision of new media technologies as a decolonizing force facilitating development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341741
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ICT sector and regional economic development:Evidence from Karnataka State
Narayana, M.R. - eSocialSciences - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699278
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We Can Work It Out - The Globalisation of ICT-enabled Services
Welsum, Desiree; Reif, Xavier - eSocialSciences - 2007
by variables included in the model. In particular, net outward manufacturing FDI, ICT investment, and the relative size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699326
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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalore’s software cluster are their external … knowledge brought in by foreign networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512451