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Digital Divide: Determinants and Policies with Special Reference to Asia

Quibria, M. G; Ahmed, Shamsun N; Tschang, Ted; Reyes-Macasaquit, Mari-Len

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Abstract

"Access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) remains extremely unequally distributed across and within societies. While there have been a good deal of popular discussions about this "digital divide", not much is known about the quantitative significance of its various determinants. By undertaking a set of crosscountry regressions, the paper finds that income, education, and infrastructure play a critical role in shaping the divide. Based on this analysis, the paper also offers some policy suggestions as to how to promote wider diffusion of ICT in poorer societies."

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