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"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut ... more
"This paper focuses on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in improving gender equality, so as to enhance long-term economic growth. Employing OLS and IV panel regressions with country fixed-effects, the paper shows that increases in the level of ICT infrastructu ... more
"ICT has been widely used to positively affect economic development. Its applications provide access to worldwide information and allow for collaboration between people on different continents. Greater access to information and opportunities for collaboration can create job opportunities, 28 transfe ... more
"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as integral to the development process. This paper reviews some of the evidence for the link between telecommunications and the Internet and economic growth, the likely impact of the new ICTs on income inequality and anecdotal ... more

The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.
"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more
"Revolutionary information and communication technologies are contributing to dramatic changes in the competitiveness of global and local markets and in the way people conduct their business and everyday lives. The potential benefits and risks these changes present for developing countries and trans ... more
"Hinsichtlich der Anwendung von Kommunikationssatelliten in der Dritten Welt zum Zwecke zielgerichteter Entwicklungskommunikation sollen am Beispiel Indien Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Technologieeinsatzes überprüft und entwicklungskommunikationstheoretischen Hypothesen gegenübergestellt werden ... more