his paper presents global evidence on the impact of expansion in mobile telephony and broadband Internet services on economic development at the subnational level. Leveraging two decades of satellite data on nightlights and the global expansion of 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks in over 34,000 subnational districts in 120 countries, it documents three main findings on the effects of mobile phones on local economic development (proxied by nightlights):...
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2023/07/24
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10526
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2023/07/25
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Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development : A Global Evidence
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Mensah,Justice Tei.
Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development : A Global Evidence (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10526 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099226107252335243