Matti Pohjola (ed.)

Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth

International Evidence and Implications for Economic Development
Herausgeber: Pohjola, Matti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The use of IT is so widely spread throughout the world economy that no single country can avoid investing in this technology if it wants to improve the standard of living of its citizens. Besides providing citizens with access to IT and to IT education and training, governments should promote participation in the information society, thus generating a sufficiently strong demand base for information products. By developing advanced applications of IT, and by becoming a model for the private sector, governments can alter worker, firm, and consumer attitudes, and lower their costs of adopting IT. The use of IT, not necessarily its production, is what matters for economic development.

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The contributors argue that no country can achieve development without government investment in, and promotion of, IT. The use of IT - and not necessarily its production - is what matters for economic development. economic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780199243983
• ISBN-10: 0199243980
• Artikelnr.: 21299152

Autorenporträt

Matti Pohjola is Principal Academic Officer at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), United Nations University, and Professor of Economics at Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Matti Pohjola: Information Technology and Economic Growth:
Introduction and Conclusions
* Technology and Economic Growth
* 2: Sergio Rebelo: The Roles of Knowledge and Capital in Economic
Growth
* 3: Pierre Mohnen: International RandD Spillovers and Economic Growth
* 4: Danny Quah: The Weightless Economy in Economic Development
* Microeconomic Evidence
* 5: Francis Kramarz: Computers and Labour Markets: International
Evidence
* 6: Nathalies Greenan, Jacques Mairesse, and Agnès Topiol-Bensaid:
Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on
Productivity and Skills: Looking for Correlations on French
Firm-Level Data
* 7: Kaushalesh Lal: The Determinants of the Adoption of Information
Technology: A Case Study of the Indian Garments Industry
* Macroeconomic Evidence
* 8: Petri Niininen: Computers and Economic Growth
* 9: Kuk-Hwan Jeong, Jeong Hun Oh, and Ilsoon Shin: The Economic Impact
of Information and Communication Technology in Korea
* 10: Poh Kam Wong: The Contribution of Information Technology to the
Rapid Economic Growth of Singapore
* 11: Matti Pohjola: Information Technology and Economic Growth: A
Cross-Country Analysis
* 12: Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick: Information Technology and
Economic Development: Results and Policy Implications of
Cross-Country Studies