ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries:

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we quanti...

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1. Verfasser: Haacker, Markus (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2010
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 10/66
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Zusammenfassung:While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding that ICT-related capital deepening contributed 0.2 percentage points to growth in low-income countries, and 0.3 percentage points in low-middle-income countries. The latter is about half the level typically found for industrialized countries
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (50 p)
ISBN:1451982100
9781451982107

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