The ongoing debate on the "digital divide" is centered on improving Internet home-access penetration rates through two instruments, price subsidies and capital subsidies. Subsidizing home access can be expensive and difficult because of the inherent difficulty of identifying target households....

This paper investigates information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects from around the world. It finds that computer and Internet promotion schemes usually fail despite active support, but mobile penetration in even the poorest countries is deepening organically. It...

Infrastructure is loosely understood to be the physical and structural features of a country which constitute its skeletal and arterial systems. The citizens of any country are, however, its greatest assets. In that sense, the most important infrastructure should be that which affects the...

Though conventional international economic wisdom holds China's hardware and India's software industries to be equipotential, little attempt has been made to compare their information industries in an overarching dynamic framework. By using a schema which links intellectual to financial value...

Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, the most ambitious scheme ever undertaken by India in secondary education, plans on raising grade completion levels and reducing gender inequity by increasing the supply of schools “within a reasonable distance”. But what are the expected returns from...