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This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing … regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT capital and GDP growth. The regressions for the subsamples of developing …, emerging and developed countries do not reveal statistically significant differences of the output elasticity of ICT between …
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industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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The present study aims to evaluate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the economic growth … MENA and SSA countries should increase investments in ICT infrastructure. To benefit from the ICT drivers of economic … development of ICT infrastructure, and contain the negative effects of inflation and government consumption. …
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The theoretical literature has predicted that inequality affects long-run growth by reducing human and physical capital, particularly in the presence of imperfect credit markets and other contractual frictions. We test these four mechanisms using measures of inequality at the country-level,...
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The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...
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(ICT)? We analyze this question based on a growth accounting approach at the level of final output. This approach traces … better products have become available to final users, in particular consumers, as a result of the diffusion of ICT. A main … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are …
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the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy. During the past 25 years, the four countries have also … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all … extent also relative to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Aufbauend auf einem von Kaldor 1967 entwickelten Ansatz wird der Einfluss der Industrieproduktion auf das gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstum untersucht. Eine Querschnittsregression mit Daten für 121 Länder bestätigt im Grundsatz Kaldors These, dass Wachstumsraten des Bruttoinlandsprodukts von...
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