It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries /

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative pr...

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Auteur principal: Bayoumi, Tamim
Autres auteurs: Haacker, Markus
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/117
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF