In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...

The government of India has been giving high priority to rural development with the objective to achieve rural –urban integration in growth processes. The focus of development is to include disadvantaged sections of society i.e. it includes ‘equality in growth' and ‘equality of opportunity...

India is promoted as the global hub of IT and ITES enabled services. The Economic Times has dubbed Bangalore as the BPO capital of world, but the question remains as to whether the Indian corporations would match the standards of western world. Government both central and federal have started to...

An innovative model describing the convergence of technology use at the micro level is introduced. ICT (information and communication technology) ownership, measured as the number of smartphones within a household, depends upon socioeconomic character- istics, such as income, education,...