ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries / Markus Haacker.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Haacker, Markus.

Contributor:

International Monetary Fund. African Dept.

Series:

IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/066

IMF Working Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Developing countries.

Technological innovations.

Industrial efficiency--Effect of technology transfer on--Developing countries.

Industrial efficiency.

Information technology--Developing countries.

Information technology.

Materials management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.

Summary:

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding that ICT-related capital deepening contributed 0.2 percentage points to growth in low-income countries, and 0.3 percentage points in low-middle-income countries. The latter is about half the level typically found for industrialized countries.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Background; III. Analytical Framework; IV. The Contribution of ICT Equipment to Economic Growth; 1. Impact of ICT-Related Capital Deepening on Growth, Selected Countries, 2001-06; 2. Impact of IT-Related Capital Deepening on Growth, Global Insight Dataset, 2001-05; 1. Contribution of ICT-Related Capital Deepening to Growth; 2. ICT-Related Investment in Low-and Lower-Middle-Income Countries, 1990-2006; 3. Rates of Price Decline of ICT Equipment, 1991-2006; 4. Impact of Shock to Relative Price of ICT Equipment Over Time

5. Impact of Declining Prices of ICT Equipment on Growth, 1990-20063. Impact of ICT-Related Capital Deepening on Growth, Selected Countries, 1990-2006; V. ICT Production and Growth; 4. Contribution of ICT Production to Growth, Selected Countries, 1990-2005; VI. Conclusions and Outlook; Data Appendix; 1. Contribution of ICT-Related Capital Deepening to Growth (Steady-State Analysis), 97 Countries, 2001-2006; 2. Contribution of ICT-Related Capital Deepening to Growth, 88 Countries, 1990-2006; 3. Production of IT Equipment in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries, 1990-2005

4. Production of Communications Equipment in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries, 1990-20055. Relative Prices of ICT Equipment, 1990-2006; VII. References; Footnotes

Notes:

"March 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612845598

9781462375929

1462375928

9781452773254

1452773254

9781282845596

1282845594

9781451982107

1451982100

OCLC:

867926805