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We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …
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We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … telephony and computers. -- broadband ; high-speed internet ; technology diffusion ; economic growth …
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We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
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What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
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What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346874
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602771
The objective of this study is to investigate the validity of the Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law in explaining the long run determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries, Australia, Canada, Japan and United States). We...
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …
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Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …
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