The COVID-19 pandemic poses a fundamental challenge to the global socio-economic system, forcing countries to reexamine social practices and production systems otherwise considered normal until the end of last year. The work presented in this paper uses empirical evidence to highlight the...

Building on the literature of labor implications from technological disruptions, this paper provides a comprehensive review of recent research carried out regarding the expected effects of automation on employment levels and performs diverse empirical approaches to estimate the effects for an...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estima el impacto de las telecomunicaciones en la economía de Argentina aplicando un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales desarrollado inicialmente por Roller & Waverman (2001). Los resultados muestran que las telecomunicaciones móviles (telefonía y banda ancha)...

Spanish Abstract: La adopción de las tecnologías digitales no implica su incorporación en los procesos productivos industriales para ser más eficientes y flexibles ante los cambios del mercado. Para obtener una visión clara del nivel de digitalización en que se encuentran las diferentes...

The Egyptian telecommunication sector grew by 17% during the second quarter of the fiscal year 2020/21, the highest among all sectors in the economy, proven to be remarkably resilient in the face COVID-19 pandemic and the Delta variant. Using quarterly time-series dataset over the period 2000...

While the economic impact of telecommunications has attracted the focus of attention of research in the past, the area of sub-Saharan Africa has only recently become the subject of inquiry. Furthermore, the study of the region represents a case study by itself. Socio-economic parameters like...

This paper explores why investment models might help explain different fiber deployment patterns, thereby conditioning the path to telecommunications-based ultrabroadband. The delivery of ultrabroadband to the residential market requires additional infrastructure investments beyond Fiber to the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the economic impact of telecommunications in the Republic of Guinea. The empirical analysis conducted suggests that the sector generates a significant direct and indirect economic impact, contributing to 6.02% of the country's 2019 GDP. From a direct...