-inflation growth due to the large diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper looks into Europe … which compares the diffusion of ICT in various European countries. Section V presents findings of several empirical studies … on productivity growth in Europe which look into the relation between ICT spending and labour productivity growth …

-economic paradigms or regimes. ICT-based technologies are the drivers of the current paradigm, which, we show, is still at an early stage …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

infrastructure, which would allow for adoption, diffusion, and productive use of information and communication technologies (ICT … harnessing the potential of ICT to accelerate the long-term economic growth and catching-up with developed countries. In the NEI …

, background information on the telecommunication sector in Namibia is given. Then, the link between the ICT sector and GDP growth …

ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are … much in ICT. The second reason is that even if they have done so, they may not have invested enough in complementary … infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …

This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel … dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT-capital has …. Next, we estimate a panel data set with 131 underdeveloped and developing countries under the assumption that ICT is one of …

This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in … Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed only in the production of ICT, aggregate LP growth experienced a slowdown …

We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R … significant short-run association between ICT and TFP, we find a positive association with a lag of seven to eight years. Thus …, spillovers from R&D affect TFP much faster than spillovers from ICT-investments. We also divide ICT capital into hardware and …