Most discussions of the digital divide treat it as a "North-South" issue, but the conventional dichotomy doesn't apply to cell phones in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although almost all Sub-Saharan countries are poor by international standards, they exhibit great disparities in coverage by cell telephone systems. Buys, Dasgupta, Thomas and Wheeler investigate the determinants of these disparities with a spatially-disaggregated model that employs locational...
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2008/02/01
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS4516
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2010/07/01
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Determinants of a digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa : a spatial econometric analysis of cell phone coverage
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telecommunications policy