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Africa: A continent is waking up. Not through aid or wealth from the exploitation of natural resources, but through a technological revolution. The access to affordable mobile telecommunication. Inspired by deregulation and pioneered by local champions who have taken a lead in what is today's...
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present between land-line penetration and mobile telecommunications expansion. This study extends previous ones along two … important dimensions. First, we allow for the potential endogeneity between economic growth and telecommunications expansion by … substitutability between mobile cellular and land-line telephony, so that greater expansion of mobile telecommunications can have a …
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We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … phase. And we develop a method designed to address endogeneity of telecommunications with respect to growth. We find that …
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Motivated, in part, by the new quot;rule of lawquot; paradigm in development economics, we examine the role of institutions, broadly defined, on the rate of mobile network build-out. We find that the quot;strictquot; rule of law (i.e., strong protection of private contract and property) does not...
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