Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT?

doi:10.1093/wber/lhy022

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Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT?

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dc.contributor.author	Gaggl, Paul
dc.contributor.author	Eden, Maya
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-06T14:04:37Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-06T14:04:37Z
dc.date.issued	2020-02
dc.description.abstract	Productivity differences across countries are often attributed to differences in technological capabilities. This paper asks whether there are systematic cross-country differences in the adoption of information technologies (IT). We document a positive correlation between IT use and income, which weakens over time. However, given that IT use is an endogenous outcome of both technological capabilities and the abundance of complementary factors of production, it tends to over-state the degree of cross-country differences in technology. We propose two novel calibration approaches to address this problem. After accounting for endogenous differences in industrial composition, we find that there is no systematic relationship between income and IT capabilities.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/36070
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/36070
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
dc.subject	ICT ADOPTION
dc.subject	INDUSTRIAL COMPOSITION
dc.subject	ICT CAPITAL STOCK
dc.title	Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT?	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
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okr.date.disclosure	2021-08-06
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:14:04.020901Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhy022
okr.journal.nbpages	48-62
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Information and Communication Technologies::ICT Economics
okr.topic	Information and Communication Technologies::Information Technology
okr.unit	DECWD
okr.volume	34(1)
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