ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
IMF Working Papers, March 1, 2010
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- Authors: Markus Haacker
- Published: March 1, 2010
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451982107.001
Overview and research question
- Author: Markus Haacker
- Publication: IMF Working Papers, Working Paper No. 2010/066
- Date: March 1, 2010
- Pages: 50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451982107.001
- Core question: Quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment in low-income and low-middle-income countries using growth accounting approaches adapted to the data environment of low-income countries.
Key findings
- ICT-related capital deepening contributed 0.2 percentage points to growth in low-income countries.
- ICT-related capital deepening contributed 0.3 percentage points to growth in low-middle-income countries.
- The contribution in low-middle-income countries ("0.3 percentage points") is about half the level typically found for industrialized countries.
Methodology and scope
- Approach: Adapts established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries.
- Focus: Effects of absorption of ICT equipment rather than production of ICT equipment.
- Contextual point: Production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries; benefits accrue primarily through capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment.
Subjects and keywords
- Subject headings: Capital accumulation, Capital productivity, Communications in revenue administration, Information technology in revenue administration, National accounts
- Keywords: capital deepening, economic growth, ICT equipment, rate of depreciation, WP
Publication metadata
- Volume: 2010
- Issue: 066
- Series: Working Paper No. 2010/066
- Stock No: WPIEA2010066
- ISBN: 9781451982107
- ISSN: 1018-5941
Source: IMF Working Paper by Markus Haacker, "ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries", March 1, 2010.