This study explores the causal relationships between information and communications technology (ICT) and economic growth. It spans the post-Great Recession period of 2008-2017, which is both a period of economic tumult and slow recovery but also significant pathbreaking developments in ICT...

Forty years ago, virtually the entire telecommunications sector was state owned, managed and controlled - owned, managed and controlled by the state since their inception. In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization, liberalization and deregulation took hold. Now the sector has been...

Chapter 1. Civilizations -- Part I. Applied Econometrics -- Chapter 2. A Different Approach to Deriving Price and Income Elasticities: Applications to Telecommunications -- Chapter 3. A Cross-Country Analysis of ICT: Diffusion & Global Competitiveness -- Chapter 4. Adoption of E-Commerce by...