The spillover effects of investments in telecoms: Insights from transition economies

Information Technology for Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-231

  Samoilenko, Sergey ^a   Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^b  

^a VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas production function; Developing emerging economies; Economic development; Investments in ICT; Structural equation modeling; Total factor productivity; Transition economies; Translog production function

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION; DEVELOPING/EMERGING ECONOMIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRANS-LOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; TRANSITION ECONOMY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 79960356273     PISSN: 02681102     EISSN: 15540170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2011.568223     Document Type: Article

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