Information Technology and Productivity in Developed and Developing Countries

IT and Productivity in Developed and Developing Countries

Tourism Impact on Air Pollution in Developed and Developing Countries

T he main purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare the impact of tourism on air pollution in selected developed and developing countries during the period of 1995-2014. To this end, at first, the model was designed based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) assumptions and with the presence of the major influencing factors on air pollution along with the international ...

Information Technology in Developing Countries

This paper investigates the impact of mobile phones on the micro-trading activities of women traders in Ghana. The research develops a conceptual model analyzing the impact of mobile phones on pre-trade, during-trade and post-trade activities. A case study approach is adopted and the findings suggest that traders primarily use mobile phones to communicate and exchange information in pre-and pos...

Information Technology in Developing Countries

In the poor and drought-prone rural district of Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, India, Gyandoot has tried since January 2000 to make government services more accessible to villagers through information and communications technology (ICT). Two recent surveys of this egovernment project allow us to evaluate whether the local population is benefiting. Main findings are that while service satisfaction is q...

Corruption and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Developed and Developing Countries

This study examines the relationship between per capita income and per capita dioxide emissions in the form of a new definition of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, to investigate how corruption influences the income level at the turning point of the relationship between per capita dioxide emissions and income, in developed and developing countries the period 1994-2013 through the use of a panel...