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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb...
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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 …
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Governments justify support of Internet diffusion on two grounds: (1) to overcome a persistent digital divide in …
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We document the existence and the persistence of the digital divide and investigate the determinants of the Internet … consistent than the traditionally used panel data estimators in technology diffusion studies. We find that i) the digital divide … is likely to persist over time, ii) the Internet diffusion process is dynamic which makes static estimators inconsistent …
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This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...
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-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
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The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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annual panel data set over 2001 to 2011 periods. The data was analysed using panel unit root, panel cointegration, Fully …
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gained from the Czech market shows, that in spite of enormous Internet proliferation the ratio of e-sales is lower than the …
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