Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT?

• Tác giả: Paul Gaggl
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 609.17 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 305987
• Chủ đề: 1. COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; 2. EQUIPMENT; 3. FINANCIAL SERVICES; 4. PRODUCTION; 5. SOFTWARE INVESTMENT

Tóm tắt

Conventional wisdom suggests too little information and communication technologies (ICT) in poor countries. Indeed, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the capital share of ICT. While this regularity is consistent with explanations based on technology adoption lags and ICT-labor substitutability, there is little empirical support for these hypotheses. Instead, the paper establishes that this regularity can be fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition.