This paper analyzes the process of Internet diffusion across the world using a panel of 199 countries during the time … interval 1990-2004. We group countries in two categories, low and high income countries, and show that the Internet diffusion … “catching up” process, although a very slow one. We next explore the determinants of Internet diffusion at the country level and …

Governments justify support of Internet diffusion on two grounds: (1) to overcome a persistent digital divide in …

information and communication technologies. The author proposes a way of measurement of the digital gaps among countries. The …

innovations that led to the development of the Internet and revolutionized the dominant paradigm for accelerating the flow and …

We document the existence and the persistence of the digital divide and investigate the determinants of the Internet … is likely to persist over time, ii) the Internet diffusion process is dynamic which makes static estimators inconsistent …, iii) Internet adoption starts later but goes faster in developing countries, iv) inflows of the foreign investment and …

that exogenously determined the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We find that participation in SNSs such …