Innovation and Economic Development

The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

AvMario Cimoli,André A. Hofman,Nanno Mulder

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are spreading fast across Latin American and the Caribbean. This trend has brought about important economic and social changes, which have largely gone unmeasured until recently. Here, analysts from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) along with other distinguished scholars in the field of ICT, growth and productivity provide theoretical and empirical insights to the debate on the role of ICT in economic development.This book is the fruit of the research ECLAC has amassed, with ten chapters detailing the great strides that have been made of late in ICT. A distinguishing feature of this book is its multi-disciplinary approach to measuring the economic effects of these technologies, which incorporates the neo-classical growth accounting approach and the evolutionary-structuralist approach. These approaches are noteworthy because, much like the primary message of ECLAC, they exemplify the pivotal importance of technical progress, productivity and structural transformation in economic growth. Innovation and Economic Development identifies several opportunities and challenges for bringing about a more dynamic role of ICT in the process of structural change and productivity growth and contends that accelerating the adoption and efficient use of ICT is essential to any strategy for further success.Policymakers, entrepreneurs, students and scholars of ICT, development and economics, and other social actors who have raised concerns about the contribution of ICT to economic growth and productivity in Latin America are sure to have their questions answered and their persectives broadened by this discerning work.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-10-29
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781849802413

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Contents:ForewordAlicia BárcenaIntroduction and SynthesisMario Cimoli, André A. Hofman and Nanno Mulder1. Latin America and the World Economy Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Minh Vu2. Technical Change and Economic Growth: Some Lessons from Secular Patterns and Some Conjectures on the Current Impact of ICTCarolina Castaldi and Giovanni Dosi3. ICT and Productivity Growth in Europe: An Update and Comparison with the USMary O’Mahony, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark4. ICT Investment in Latin America: Does it Matter for Economic Growth?Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Nanno Mulder, Mariela Dal Borgo and André A. Hofman5. Growth, Productivity and Information and Communications Technologies in Latin America, 1950–2005 Claudio Aravena, Marc Badia-Miró, André A. Hofman, Christian Hurtado and José Jofré González6. The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Economic Growth in Latin America in Comparative PerspectiveNauro F. Campos7. ICT, Learning and Growth: An Evolutionary Perspective Mario Cimoli and Nelson Correa8. ICT and Knowledge Complementarities: A Factor Analysis on Growth Marco Capasso and Nelson Correa9. A Dynamic Input–Output Simulation Analysis of the Impact of ICT Diffusion in the Brazilian Economy Fabio Freitas, David Kupfer and Esther Dweck10. The Relative Impact of the Regulatory Framework on the Diffusion of ICT: Evidence from Latin America, 1989–2004Nauro F. CamposIndex