The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...

This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative...

This paper focuses on the relatively new growing industry of offshore business process outsourcing, which has provided developing countries with literate language and information technology skilled workforce with an excellent global business opportunity. The main advantages to business process...

Agents who invest periodically in two complementary projects i and j try to minimize shortfall due to misperceptions concerning the interaction a between i and j. Previous studies have analytically solved such problems but they have been limited to two agents making one decision. We set out with...

Despite significant policy efforts, in 2003 the Hungarian general population has fallen behind the Central and Eastern European (CEE) average regarding most social indicators of Internet access, usage, knowledge and attitudes. The article is a policy impact assessment interpreting the results of...

This paper focuses on the relatively new growing industry of offshore business process outsourcing, which has provided developing countries with literate language and information technology skilled workforce with an excellent global business opportunity. The main advantages to business process...