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723931
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b543648
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edited by Anthony P. D'Costa ; foreword by Matti Pohjola.
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The new economy in development : : ICT challenges and opportunities\ edited by Anthony P. D'Costa ; foreword by Matti Pohjola.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan ; [Helsinki, Finland] : in association with United Nations University and World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2006
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Technology, globalization and development.
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(xxiii, 235 pages) : illustrations
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0230287700
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: 1349279854
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: 9780230287709
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: 9781349279852
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| Contents
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Introduction: charting a new development trajectory? / Anthony P.D'Costa --;Theoretical and conceptual foundations of total factor productivity measurement in services: looking back and ahead / Birgitte Andersen and Marva E. Corley --;Emergent regime formation for the information society and the impact on Africa / Derrick L. Cogburn --;The internet and economic growth in LDCs: a case of managing expectations? / Charles Kenny --;Can ICT make a difference in the development of transition economies? / Marcin Piatkowski --;ICT initiatives in India: lessons for broad-based development / P.D. Kaushik --;The software and information services sector in Argentina: the pros and cons of an inward-oriented development strategy / Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés Lopéz --;ICT opportunities and challenges for development in the Arab region / Samia Satti O.M. Nour --;Impact of technology on competitiveness: a case study of Indian small auto component units / T.A. Bhavani --;How to solve the 'hotmail problem': global-local interfaces and Filipino technopreneurs / Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu.
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The New Economy in Development presents conceptual and empirical analyses of the opportunities offered by information and communications technologies (ICT). Contributors include scholars and policy makers from international organizations, and the chapters include understudied cases from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Communication in economic development.
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COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
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Information technology -- Developing countries.
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Anthony P D'Costa
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