Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide /

This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market developmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yartey, Charles Amo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/258
Online Access:Full text available on IMF