Add to ORKGDoes the Internet have the potential to accelerate development in poor nations? Or is it an innovation that will widen the gap between wealthy and poor countries? This paper places the Internet in a framework of major innovations in modern economic history that have contributed to increased global economic inequality. To study whether the Internet has the potential to do the same, we investigate the determinants of Internet diffusion and explore differences between developed and developing nations. Our findings indicate that developing countries are being left behind as the transformation to the "new economy " takes place in wealthier countries. If this trend continues, it may have dire consequences for world economic ineq...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...
Enabling scientists from developing countries to bridge the gap between rich and poor depends on clo...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...
Does the Internet have the potential to accelerate development in poor nations? Or is it an innovati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Defined as the differential degree to which rich and poor countries benefit from new information and...
In a world that is increasingly united in time and distance, I examine why the world is increasingly...
A discussion of the theory of technology and economic growth suggests potentially negative implicati...
The arrival of the so-called information society—and with its recent ‘leap of faith ’ in the Interne...
This paper explores the commonly held view that the Internet, and information and communication tech...
ABSTRACT A discussion of the theory of technology and economic growth suggests potentially negative ...
The Internet has become a new vehicle for bringing global social and economic changes to the world. ...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...
Enabling scientists from developing countries to bridge the gap between rich and poor depends on clo...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...
Does the Internet have the potential to accelerate development in poor nations? Or is it an innovati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Conventional wisdom argues that low- and middle-income countries can use Information and Communicati...
Defined as the differential degree to which rich and poor countries benefit from new information and...
In a world that is increasingly united in time and distance, I examine why the world is increasingly...
A discussion of the theory of technology and economic growth suggests potentially negative implicati...
The arrival of the so-called information society—and with its recent ‘leap of faith ’ in the Interne...
This paper explores the commonly held view that the Internet, and information and communication tech...
ABSTRACT A discussion of the theory of technology and economic growth suggests potentially negative ...
The Internet has become a new vehicle for bringing global social and economic changes to the world. ...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...
Enabling scientists from developing countries to bridge the gap between rich and poor depends on clo...
Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph...