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Internet Use And Economic Development: Evidence And Policy Implications, Joseph J. Macdougald
Internet Use And Economic Development: Evidence And Policy Implications, Joseph J. Macdougald
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores how Internet use impacts four different measures of economic development using several econometric techniques on multi-country panel data. The economic development outcomes investigated are: per capita GDP, per capita export revenues, per capita market capitalization, and societal well-being as measured by the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI). Data from the World Bank, the International Telecommunication Union, and the United Nations –covering 202 countries over the period 1996 to 2007– are combined to allow for empirical investigation using dynamic panel data and finite mixture model estimation techniques on the total sample and subsamples stratified by country income …