Information technology and its role in India's economic development: A review

Arbeitspapier

Information technology (IT) is an example of a general purpose technology that has the potential to play an important role in economic growth, as well as other dimensions of economic and social development. This paper reviews several interrelated aspects of the role of information technology in the evolution of India's economy. It considers the unexpected success of India's software export sector and the spillovers of this success into various IT enabled services, attempts to make IT and its benefits available to India's rural masses, e-commerce for the country's growing middle class, the use and impacts of IT in India's manufacturing sector, and various forms of e-governance, including internal systems as well as citizen interfaces. The paper concludes with an overall assessment of these different facets of IT in the context of the Indian economy.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 718

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Computable General Equilibrium Models ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Singh, Nirvikar
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of California, Economics Department
• (wo): Santa Cruz, CA
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98639
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ