There are growing infrastructure needs in the APEC region as their economies have expanded. However, both developing and developed economies face infrastructure gaps because of the mismatch between infrastructure demands and supplies. Developing countries require developing and constructing new...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a...

This paper investigates the association between ethnic heterogeneity and information technology related outcomes such as internet access and internet use. We argue that the global digital divide, as measured by cross-country differences in internet access and use, could be explained by...

My contribution is concerned with measures of Internet quality and availability used and usable in the analysis of the so called digital divide. The usage of the share of Internet users in the population – widely used in economic analysis – can easily be misleading in this debate, suggesting...