Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98639 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 718
Publisher: 
University of California, Economics Department, Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract: 
Information technology (IT) is an example of a general purpose technology that has the potential to play an important role in economic growth, as well as other dimensions of economic and social development. This paper reviews several interrelated aspects of the role of information technology in the evolution of India's economy. It considers the unexpected success of India's software export sector and the spillovers of this success into various IT enabled services, attempts to make IT and its benefits available to India's rural masses, e-commerce for the country's growing middle class, the use and impacts of IT in India's manufacturing sector, and various forms of e-governance, including internal systems as well as citizen interfaces. The paper concludes with an overall assessment of these different facets of IT in the context of the Indian economy.
JEL: 
E32
J33
J21
C68
C61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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