Does the digital divide across countries lead to convergence? New international evidence

Rath, Badri Narayan

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2016.05.020

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“…Noting ICT's contribution to economic progress in the advanced countries, LMICs being latecomers are now speeding up the development of the ICT sector as a major focus of general economic reforms (Rath, 2016, Rath andHermawan, 2019). They are getting rid of government monopolies and by encouraging competition and assisting investors in the ICT sector with joint ventures with the private sector.…”

Section: Ict and Economic Growthmentioning

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Role of Ict as a Contingency Factor in Financial Sector Development, Remittances, and Economic Growth Nexus: An Empirical Study of Indonesia

Makun¹,

Jayaraman

2020

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This study examines the role of ICT as a factor in Indonesia’s financial sector development, remittances, and economic growth nexus using annual data from 1984-2017. We use the bounds testing procedure based on the Autoregressive Distributed Lag framework and the neoclassical growth model. The findings of the study reveal that ICT has indeed emerged as a significant factor in the remittance-growth nexus by playing a complementary role in financial sector development. The policy implication is that ICT needs to be supported at all levels and the financial inclusion process should be carried forward as it has all the potential to speed up economic growth and development.

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Section: Ict and Economic Growthmentioning

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Role of Ict as a Contingency Factor in Financial Sector Development, Remittances, and Economic Growth Nexus: An Empirical Study of Indonesia

Makun¹,

Jayaraman

2020

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“…The literature widely recognizes that digital innovation in the form of information and communication technologies (ICT) has a significant influence on economic growth and productivity (see, for instance, Cette et al, 2005;Farkhanda, 2007;Venturini, 2009;Dimelis and Papaioannou, 2010;Heeks, 2010;Cortes and Navarro, 2011;Ahmed and Ridzuan, 2013;Rath, 2016;Niebel, 2018). As a consequence, rapid adoption of ICT in terms of access and use is observed worldwide (Chinn and Fairlie, 2007;Lam and Shiu, 2010;ITU, 2018).…”

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“…Adoption of ICT in advanced countries is much faster compared to underdeveloped and developing nations (Caselli and Coleman, 2001;Chinn and Fairlie, 2007). However, adoption of ICT, particularly the use of mobile phones and internet, has been rapidly increasing over time and now drives economic activity (see, for instance, Katz, 2009;Byrne et al, 2011;Avgerou et al, 2016;Rath, 2016).…”

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Do Information and Communication Technologies Foster Economic Growth in Indonesia?

Rath¹,

Hermawan²

2019

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This paper investigates, using annual data from 1980 to 2014, whether adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) fosters economic growth in Indonesia. We employ an Autoregressive Distributed Lag cointegration technique on an augmented neoclassical growth model. The empirical results indicate a positive effect of ICT development on economic growth in both the long-run and short-run. The other regressors, such as total factor productivity, human capital, and capital per worker, also positively affect economic growth. From a policy perspective, the Indonesian government should promote ICT development through greater investment.

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“…The many "digital divides" that exist in terms of internet access, use, and ability compound the challenge of generalization from search data (Dimaggio et al 2001;Guillén and Suárez 2005). In many countries, internet users (including Google users) tend to be more educated, wealthy, young, male, and urban, and divides also fall along national-level characteristics such as government regime and size of economy, but these individual-and national-level divides are greatly diminishing over time (Fatehkia et al 2018;Garcia et al 2018;Rath 2016;Stier 2017;Straumann and Graham 2016). Search data nonetheless hold the potential to offer valuable insights that can extend research on national and developmental perceptions.…”

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Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data

Dorius

Swindle

2019

Sociology of Development

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Existing scholarship on developmental idealism demonstrates that ordinary people around the world tend to perceive the level of development and characteristics of different countries similarly. We build on this literature by examining publics' perceptions of nations and development in internet search data, which we argue offers additional insights into publics' perceptions that survey data does not address. Our analysis finds that developmental idealism is prevalent in international internet searches about countries. A consistent mental image of national development emerges from the traits publics ascribe to countries in internet searches. We find a positive relationship between the sentiment expressed in Google searches about a given country and its position in the global developmental hierarchy. Diverse publics consistently associate positive attributes to countries ranked high on global development indices and negative characteristics to countries ranked low. We also find a positive correlation between the number of internet searches about a country and the country's position in indices of global development. These findings illustrate that ordinary people have deeply internalized developmental idealism and that this informs their views about countries worldwide.

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Does the digital divide across countries lead to convergence? New international evidence

Cited by 36 publications

References 44 publications

Role of Ict as a Contingency Factor in Financial Sector Development, Remittances, and Economic Growth Nexus: An Empirical Study of Indonesia

Role of Ict as a Contingency Factor in Financial Sector Development, Remittances, and Economic Growth Nexus: An Empirical Study of Indonesia

Do Information and Communication Technologies Foster Economic Growth in Indonesia?

Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data

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