IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/10352.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Growth and Transformative Effects of ICT Adoption : A Survey

Author

Listed:
  • Vergara Cobos,Estefania Belen
  • Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso

Abstract

This paper provides a compressive synthesis of the most recent and widely cited literature onthe economic effects of information and communications technology adoption at the country, firm, and individuallevels. The study surveys and analyzes the available literature on the topics of economic growth andtransformation, and highlights the main conclusions drawn by scholars, areas of ongoing debate, and remaining researchquestions that need to be addressed in future work. Over 85 percent of the reviewed papers are of quantitative nature, and approximately 32% of those show causal effects. Themajority of the studies find a positive relationship between the adoption of information and communications technologyand country economic growth, firm level growth, household/individual welfare, or labor conditions, with mostshowing statistically significant results. The paper shows that, for policy making purposes, the effects of informationand communications technology adoption should be thoroughly evaluated at all levels to ensure that the benefits outweighany potential negative consequences.

Suggested Citation

  • Vergara Cobos,Estefania Belen & Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso, 2023. "Growth and Transformative Effects of ICT Adoption : A Survey," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10352, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10352
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099554003092330716/pdf/IDU0d9338f7201a08048bb088650a4f928761e4b.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10352. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Roula I. Yazigi (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dvewbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.