TY - JOUR
T1 - Information and communications technology use and income growth
T2 - evidence of the multiplier effect in very small island states
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
AU - Najjar, Lotfollah
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was commissioned by Anthony Ming, Advisor at the Commonwealth Secretariat for the Commonwealth Heads of Government for Small Island States workshop in London. We would like to thank him for his persistence and guidance on the successful completion of this research. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers and special issue editors, Arlene Bailey and Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, for their comments on many previous versions of this paper. It is because of editors like them that this Journal continues to publish quality research that is relevant to improving the lives of people.
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Very small island states face unique challenges, such as volatile economies, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters, particularly with raising seas, increases their dependence on the world economy. Despite their growing use of ICTs, the results are mixed in terms of the effect of growing ICT usage on income growth. This paper investigates how growth in ICT usage may enable growth in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in very small island states by analyzing the effects of average ICT usage on GDP growth based on the most recent data available from the World Bank and from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Following an analysis of data over four years of 32 very small island states, this paper identifies an ICT multiplier effect that may explain and predict the relationship between average ICT usage and GDP growth. By showing how the ICT multiplier effects may be connected to GDP growth, this paper adds to what we know about the relationship between these two indicators in very small island states. This has implications for how government interventions can enable ICT capacity to bring about GDP growth.
AB - Very small island states face unique challenges, such as volatile economies, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters, particularly with raising seas, increases their dependence on the world economy. Despite their growing use of ICTs, the results are mixed in terms of the effect of growing ICT usage on income growth. This paper investigates how growth in ICT usage may enable growth in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in very small island states by analyzing the effects of average ICT usage on GDP growth based on the most recent data available from the World Bank and from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Following an analysis of data over four years of 32 very small island states, this paper identifies an ICT multiplier effect that may explain and predict the relationship between average ICT usage and GDP growth. By showing how the ICT multiplier effects may be connected to GDP growth, this paper adds to what we know about the relationship between these two indicators in very small island states. This has implications for how government interventions can enable ICT capacity to bring about GDP growth.
KW - Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
KW - Information and communication technology (ICT)
KW - multiplier effects
KW - very small island states
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U2 - 10.1080/02681102.2016.1173634
DO - 10.1080/02681102.2016.1173634
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018169162
SN - 0268-1102
VL - 23
SP - 212
EP - 234
JO - Information Technology for Development
JF - Information Technology for Development
IS - 2
ER -