Industries without smokestacks: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper underlines the importance of governments creating a more open and competitive environment to attract infrastructure investment (in terms of fibre-optic rings and cable links, among others), and foster rivalry among suppliers of devices and mainly services, thereby benefiting users with lower prices and better-quality services so as to steer societies away from being marginalized by the information and communication technology revolution.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-230-4
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2017/6

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Information and Internet Services; Computer Software ; Telecommunications ; Economic Development: General ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: economic development ; innovation ; least developed country ; technological change ; growth

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Frischtak, Cláudio R.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/230-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161565
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET