realistic dispersion of income levels with modest barriers to technology adoption. Human capital and physical capital contribute … to income differences both directly (as usual), and indirectly by boosting resources devoted to technology adoption. The … model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …

. At a time, existence of extend causal relationships between technology diffusion and general economy performance is … we consider ICTs diffusion patterns in Latin American countries, approximating the diffusion process by S-shaped curves …