Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1494-1505

  Buys, Piet ^a   Dasgupta, Susmita ^a   Thomas, Timothy S ^a   Wheeler, David ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

competition policy; GSM cell phone; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); spatial probit; Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION POLICY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMAND ANALYSIS; MARKET CONDITIONS; MARKOV CHAIN; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 68049118557     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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