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This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their … from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to identify the causal impacts of ICT, we find evidence from the … country's comprehensive enterprise survey data that firms' adoption of broadband Internet and other related ICT increased …
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shares into information and communications technology (ICT) are more likely to shift towards highly educated labor and high …
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a vision to revive the ancient 'Silk Road' by means of massive infrastructure investments throughout Eurasia and Africa, was first presented by China's President Xi Jinping in 2013. China has identified the region of Central East and Southeast Europe (CESEE)...
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This paper empirically investigates the role of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in 15 West African countries with a view to ascertaining if the positive role of mobile technology adoption on human development as established in other regions holds in West Africa. It used data from...
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Purpose- This study presents theoretical and empirical arguments for the role of mobile telephony in promoting good governance in 47 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical inquiry uses an endogeneity-robust GMM approach with forward...
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Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...
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The experience of South Korea, India, China and Singapore reveals that developing economies can fasttrack development, leapfrog the stages of development and catch up with advanced economies by putting knowledge capital as the driver of development. If the knowledge economy is therefore a n...
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This study examines how information and communication technology (ICT) could be employed to dampen the potentially …-Saharan African countries. ICT is captured with internet and mobile phone penetration rates whereas environmental degradation is …. Unstable). Baseline findings broadly show that improvement in both of measures of ICT would significantly diminish the possibly …
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The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …, financial access is measured with deposit and credit channels while ICT is proxied by mobile phone penetration, internet … empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Policy thresholds are established at which, ICT modulates …
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This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three … inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators include …
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