Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth: International Evidence and Implications for Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780199243983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str.

Matti Pohjola

Opis

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.

Recenzje

An important contribution to the ongoing debate on the economic impact of technological advances in the information and communication sectors ... In recent years, when the hype concerning the advent of the so-called 'new economy' was at its height, much has been said and written about the almost miraculous virtues of the ICT revolution. This book has the important merit of looking at the issue from a more balanced and informed perspective... highly welcome as an important contribution, from which everybody concerned with technological progress, economic growth and development will benefit.

O autorze

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