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In: SpringerBriefs in Economics Series
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Data Sources -- 1.1.2 The STEM Gender Divide: Causes and Remedies -- 1.1.3 Intermediaries, First-Time Users of Mobile Internet and Women´s Digital Skills -- 1.1.4 Cumulative Causation and Countervailing Policy -- 1.1.5 The Learning Process for Girls and Women -- References -- Chapter 2: First Time-Users of the Mobile Internet in the Global South -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Rationale of Separately Studying First-Time Users of the Mobile Internet -- 2.3 The Particular Problems of First-Time Users of the Mobile Internet -- 2.4 Some Policy Implications -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: The Gender Digital Divide in Mobile Internet Use: Evidence, Explanations and Policy for the Global South -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Main Questions and Data Sources -- 3.3 Research Findings and Explanations -- 3.4 Differential Learning Processes in Digital Skills Between Genders -- 3.5 STEM Learning and the Gender Digital Divide -- 3.6 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- References -- Chapter 4: Gender, Mobile Internet and COVID-19 in the Global South: Multiple Causalities -- 4.1 The Effects of Mobile Internet on Gender and COVID-19 -- 4.2 From Mobile Internet to Female Well-Being -- 4.3 From the Mobile Internet to COVID-19 Among Women -- 4.4 From the Mobile Internet to COVID-19 -- References -- Chapter 5: The Digital Use Divide Between Males and Females at Different Levels of Aggregation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Global Level -- 5.3 Regional Level -- 5.4 Country-Level Comparisons -- 5.5 Gender, Literacy and Digital Skills -- 5.6 Digital Skills -- 5.7 Affordability -- 5.8 Relevance -- 5.9 Safety and Security -- 5.10 Intra-country Level -- 5.11 Policy Implications -- References.
In: SpringerBreifs in Economics
This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South. The book argues that the degree of benefits from this new technology depends heavily on the way it is actually used and that most new technologies are developed for the conditions prevailing in rich countries, where they tend to be quite easily adopted and used. In the Global South, by contrast, a paucity of digital skills and other factors make the potentially valuable benefits from the Internet much more difficult to derive. Using empirical data recently provided by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), the book examines the existence and extent of the digital divide between males and females in mobile Internet use, which constitutes a new form of divide. It sheds light on the acute difficulty for first-time mobile Internet users in the Global South, and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, to learn the digital skills that are needed to use the said technology effectively, with a special focus on how these users acquire the required knowledge, without having undergone the process of learning by doing. The book further discusses the determinants of digital skills in the Global South, as well as major factors underlying the extent to which different users actually benefit from the mobile Internet, such as gender, location, age, and education. Finally, it investigates how womens' use of the Internet has been altered by the pandemic in the Global South. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of development economics and development studies, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the impact of gender bias and Covid-19 on mobile internet use in the Global South.
In: SpringerBriefs in Economics
In: Springer eBook Collection
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Policy Towards the Corona Epidemic in Developing Countries -- Chapter 3. Digital Divide Reversal: Evidence, Explanations and Implications -- Chapter 4. Why is India so Dominant in the Demand for New Smart Feature Phones that are Internet Connected? -- Chapter 5. Interregional and Intercountry Analysis of Mobile Internet Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 6. Mobile Use of the Internet Among the Poor in the Global South: Preferences, Theories and Policies.
In: SpringerBriefs in Economics
In: Springer eBook Collection
This novel book, motivated by the recent introduction of a major innovation in information technology, explores the possibility of the Internet being made available to millions of poor people in developing countries, who are not yet connected. The new technology, known as a smart feature phone, is based on open-source software and otherwise designed for a low-income population. The purpose of this book is to examine the origins, spread and impact of this innovation. Much attention is paid to literacy and digital skills, which determine the benefits that are actually derived.
In: Routledge studies in development economics 132
In: Routledge studies in development economics
In: Routledge studies in development economics, 132
The current growth path in sub-Saharan Africa is not following the Lewis model where labour moves from low-productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing. Instead, it is moving directly to inappropriate (import and labour-saving) methods. This book seeks to show how this distorted growth process leaves out the major resource of these countries - labour - and ends up creating unstable employment and underemployment, leading to inequality and poverty. In this way it demonstrates how the entire growth process may be rendered unstable and unsustainable. Sustainable Growth in the African Economy considers whether the relatively rapid growth of recent years can be maintained or improved upon, with a focus on the process of industrialisation. Basing itself on a well-known dual-economy model, the proposed book focuses on several major problems of industrialisation, which has long been seen as the means of structural change in an economy which begins from a low income level. The book considers how the future trajectory of sub-Saharan Africa compares to recent success stories on other continents, and explains how factors such as rapid population growth and capital and import-intensive technology in manufacturing could foreshadow future social and political problems. This book will be essential reading to students and policymakers who are concerned with the existing pattern of African growth.
In: SpringerBriefs in economics
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 The Diffusion of Mobile Phones to the Poor -- 1.2 The Impact of Mobile Phones -- Reference -- 2 The Diffusion of Mobile Phones in the Historical Context of Innovations from Developed Countries -- Abstract -- 2.1 The Rogers Diffusion Curve: Developed Versus Developing Countries -- 2.2 An Explanation -- 2.3 The Case of IT and Mobile Phones -- 2.3.1 Exceptions: Yet Another Curve -- 2.3.2 Leapfrogging -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- 3 To What Extent Are the Poor Engaged with Mobile Telephony? -- Abstract -- 3.1 Connections Versus Unique Subscribers -- 3.2 Direct Evidence -- 3.2.1 Asian Evidence -- 3.3 Affordability -- 3.3.1 The Price of Mobile Services -- 3.3.2 The Cost of Mobile Handsets -- 3.4 The Impact on Inequality -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 A Pro-poor Bias: Leapfrogging and the Context -- Abstract -- 4.1 The Technology -- 4.1.1 Leapfrogging Characteristics of Mobile Phones -- 4.1.2 Mobile Phones as an Appropriate Technology -- 4.2 The Context -- 4.2.1 Network Effects -- 4.2.2 Sharing Mobile Phones -- 4.2.3 Prepayment -- 4.2.4 Rental Markets -- 4.2.5 Beeping -- 4.2.6 Mobile Banking -- 4.3 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Micro, Macro and Scaling-Up Effects -- Abstract -- 5.1 Micro-economic Effects -- 5.1.1 Macro-economic Effects -- 5.2 Scaling-Up Effects -- 5.2.1 Three Cases of Scaling-Up: Community Phone Shops, Grameen Telecom and M-PESA -- 5.3 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Patterns of Mobile Phone Use in Africa -- Abstract -- 6.1 Survey Method and Characteristics of Respondents -- 6.2 Results for Four Mechanisms of Mobile Phone Use -- 6.2.1 Economics-Related Mechanisms -- 6.2.2 Health-Related Mechanisms -- 6.2.3 Social Capital Mechanisms of Use -- 6.2.4 Safety-Related Mechanisms of Use -- 6.3 Cross-Tabular Analysis -- 6.4 Conclusions -- References.
In: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate.Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers. James also raises important issues which have been largely neglected in the literature, such as the implications for poverty in developing countries and the macroeconomics
In: Routledge studies in development economics 99
In: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
In this timely book, Jeffrey James undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate surrounding IT and development. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers.
In: Routledge studies in development economics 39
According to many observers, the global digital divide - the extent to which information technology is benefiting developed as opposed to developing countries - has already established itself as the single most pervasive theme of the 21st century. The purpose of this book is to explore some of the ways in which this divide can be overcome both within and between nations. Employing a rigorous analytical framework, the author bases his analysis on the concept of international technological dualism. He argues that one possible solution to the problem is the availability of affordable technologies
In this book Jeffrey James deals with some of the most important and controversial aspects of the relationship between consumption and globalization in developing countries. Part One assesses the welfare effects of globalization on different groups of consumers, using an analytical framework that departs substantially from the assumptions of traditional consumption theory. Part Two deals with the effect of globalization on local products and cultures in developing countries and the potential afforded by the growth of the mass media to alleviate a number of social problems in those countries. The author argues that instead of the welfare gains associated with traditional theory, globalization may often lead to frustration and disappointment among consumers; that it does not invariably displace local products and that, in combination with social marketing, it offers new ways of addressing acute social problems