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New Technologies Adoption and Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries. An Empirical Study for the Period 2000-2011
Abstract
In recent years, enormous changes are noted worldwide when broad adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These unique technologies – often perceived as economic development incentives – have a great ability to spread at high pace and low cost in world countries, bringing to people opportunities to contribute to economic development and growth. New Technologies play a special role in developing countries, where their in-country adoption lies in the centre of development strategies. ICT are treated as tools which bring to people access to information, education and knowledge, offering unlimited possibilities for wealth-creation. The paper, purely empirical in nature, reports on the pace of adoption of new Information and Communication Technologies in developing countries, and – additionally – investigates country-specific ICT diffusion patterns. We expect to uncover the S-shape curve in the diffusion process in most of developing countries, as well as in the whole country sample. For the analysis purposes we apply all counties, which – according to the World Bank nomenclature – are classified as low-income and lower-middle-income economies. Our sample covers 46 countries (upper-middle-income and high-income economies are excluded from the study purposely), which are classified as developing economies. The time framework is set for the period of 2000-2011. All data necessary for the analysis are derived from World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database 2012 (16th edition).
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
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EQUILIBRIUM Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy
no. 8,
edition 4,
pages 79 - 106,
ISSN: 1689-765X - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Bibliographic description:
- Lechman E.: New Technologies Adoption and Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries. An Empirical Study for the Period 2000-2011// EQUILIBRIUM Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy. -Vol. 8., iss. 4 (2013), s.79-106
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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