Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World?

Paunov, Caroline; Rollo, Valentina

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.029

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“…The findings indicate that farmers who adopted the system became more efficient and received better prices relative to a control group. Further, Paunov and Rollo () find that internet adoption within a sector has positive impacts on individual firms’ labour productivity and innovation capacity, regardless of adoption. Interestingly, these spillover impacts are larger for smaller firms and for firms located in smaller agglomerations, suggesting the presence of catch‐up effects related to internet diffusion.…”

Section: Opening the Internet Black Boxmentioning

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Connected for Development? Theory and evidence about the impact of Internet technologies on poverty alleviation

Galperín

Viecens

2017

Development Policy Review

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Based on the assumption that increased access to internet services boosts economic growth and improves the well‐being of the poor, governments in both developed and emerging regions are heavily investing in internet connectivity projects. This article reviews the existing evidence as to the impact of internet technologies on various development dimensions, and articulates the empirical evidence into an analytical framework that seeks to identify the micro‐linkages between internet adoption and poverty alleviation. The review suggests that the development pay‐offs of internet technologies are ambiguous due to two interrelated effects. First, because effective appropriation requires a range of skills as well as complementary investment in human capital and organizational changes. This tends to favour well‐educated workers and firms with more innovative capacity and access to finance. Second, because the positive effects of internet dissemination on market co‐ordination and political institutions grow exponentially with adoption levels. As a result, while the evidence indicates that advanced economies are reaping significant benefits from internet investments, the returns for less advanced economies, and in particular for the fight against poverty in these regions, remain uncertain.

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Section: Opening the Internet Black Boxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connected for Development? Theory and evidence about the impact of Internet technologies on poverty alleviation

Galperín

Viecens

2017

Development Policy Review

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“…There is, however, a quite extensive literature on the economic impact of mobile phones for small and micro enterprises in developing and emerging countries (e.g. Jensen 2007, Muto and Yamano 2009, Aker and Mbiti 2010, Tadesse and Bahiigwa 2015and Paunov and Rollo 2016. In general, this literature suggests that the use of mobile phones improves market outcomes.…”

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Mobile and More Productive? Firm-Level Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Mobile Internet Use

Bertschek

Niebel

2015

SSRN Journal

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. AbstractMobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place.We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet was still at a relatively early stage of diffusion within firms. The econometric analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access. Our instrumental variables approach reveals that mobile internet use does cause higher labour productivity.Keywords: Mobile Internet, Labour Productivity, Firm-Level Data. JEL Classification

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“…Internet access is perhaps one of the most significant indicators of human and socioeconomic development. It fosters productivity and innovation (Avgerou 2008;Paunov and Rollo 2016), social interactions (Liang and Guo 2015) and reduces communication and search costs (Beard et al 2012). Yet, there is a digital divide in the level of internet access among developing countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to the rest of the world.…”

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Exploring the Determinants of Internet Usage in Nigeria: A Micro-spatial Approach

Odusanya

Adetutu

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The dearth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in the Sub-Saharan Africa region underscores the argument that the spread of broadband infrastructure can foster internet adoption in the region. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to present results on the determinants of internet adoption in a sub-Saharan African country. Drawing on a dataset of households in Nigeria, this study presents findings on the demographic, socioeconomic and infrastructure factors that predict internet usage in Nigeria. The novelty of our analysis stems from a unique dataset constructed by matching geo-referenced information from an inventory of network equipment to a nationally representative street-level survey of over 20,000 Nigerians, by far one of the largest technology adoption surveys in sub-Saharan Africa to date within the information systems literature. The results are discussed and concluding remarks highlighting next steps are made.

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Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World?

Cited by 257 publications

References 83 publications

Connected for Development? Theory and evidence about the impact of Internet technologies on poverty alleviation

Connected for Development? Theory and evidence about the impact of Internet technologies on poverty alleviation

Mobile and More Productive? Firm-Level Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Mobile Internet Use

Exploring the Determinants of Internet Usage in Nigeria: A Micro-spatial Approach

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