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An overview of growth in the ICT sector in India: can this growth be pro-poor?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dubey, Sonali |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | This paper presents a review of the growth of the ICT sector in India and explores the possible impact on poverty – more specifically rural poverty within the country. Given the early stages of expansion of the ICT sector in developing countries, the literature on its impact on poverty reduction is at a rudimentary stage. The paper identifies issues critical to examining if ICT in developing countries has implicit poverty reduction pathways. The discussions are based on the Indian experience. The identified areas bear potential for further research into ICT growth and poverty reduction in line with the millennium development goals. The current literature on the growth of the ICT sector in India is reviewed followed by a discussion on who the poor are, what is their interface if any with the local ICT sector and what is meant by pro-poor growth. It is envisaged that profiling the ICT sector and the poor will lay the pre-requisites to benefit from the growth in the ICT in developing countries. The process will first highlight ICT features that can be incorporated in the development policies. Areas where the poor are most disadvantaged are identified next. A discussion, exploring how the integration of ICT might be harnessed to overcome areas of disadvantage for the poor follows. The paper proposes possible channels and transmission mechanisms of benefit from the ICT growth to the poor in India. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1018/1/Tiwari,%20M%20(2006)%20WRSTSD%203%20(4)%20298.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Policy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
