Globalization, Information Technology and Development

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey James (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Information Technology and Globalization....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Differential Access to Communications Technologies....Pages 17-32
Industrial Information Technologies and Comparative Advantage in International Trade....Pages 33-49
International Trade and Foreign Investment in Information Technology....Pages 50-64
Information Technology and Foreign Direct Investment....Pages 65-81
Conclusions....Pages 82-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Globalization, Information Technology and National Inequalities in Developing Countries....Pages 101-115
New Technologies, Employment and Labour Markets in Developing Countries....Pages 116-154
Postscript: a Note on Globalization, Information Technology and World Inequality....Pages 155-160
Back Matter....Pages 161-163

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Political Economy; Globalization

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