[kictanet] Fwd: Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP

[Brian Longwe]

Interesting read....

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> Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP
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> Mobile phones are a ticket out of poverty for millions. No argument  
> there. But check out this global ICT study by Christine Zhen-Wei  
> Qiang, an economist at the World Bank for a surprising comparison  
> with broadband Internet.
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> She found that for every 10 percentage points increase in broadband  
> penetration, there is an incremental increase in economic growth of  
> 1.3 percentage points. This compares to the 0.8 percent increase for  
> mobile phones. I would not have expected such a great differential -  
> almost a 2x greater GDP boost via broadband than mobiles.
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> http://ow.ly/1gn96
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> Marco Zennaro
> Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory
> the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
> Strada Costiera 11
> 34014 Trieste
> Italy
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> Telephone:    +39 040 2240 406
> E-mail:             mzennaro at ictp.it
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