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Specialized information and interdependence: Problems of concentration and access

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The inequality of access to specialized information in North-South relations has a major effect on the outcome of negotiations vital to developing countries. Economic and political leverage among industrialized countries is partly based on the concentration of information and knowledge in those countries, and major transnational firms. Information is a product which can be acquired at a cost, and a resource which affects both the capacity for decision making at the national level and for bargaining in the international context. Differential accessibility to information may be central to the world's income determination. Research on present stocks and flows, including new technological capacity, will lend understanding to features of concentration and problems of access.

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  • O'Brien, Rita Cruise, 1980. "Specialized information and interdependence: Problems of concentration and access," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 4(1), pages 42-48, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:4:y:1980:i:1:p:42-48
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