Impact of information and communication technologies on country development: Accounting for area interrelationships

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-58

  Kauffman, Robert ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOVERNMENT OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Country assessment; Development; E readiness; Economic analysis; ICTs; Index measures; Measurement; Policy making; Simultaneous equation model; Three stage least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949145043     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415130101     Document Type: Article

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