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    Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia
    Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia
    Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia
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    Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia

    By Tim Kelly, Hernan Winkler, Aleksandra Liaplina and Shawn W. Tan

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    From East to West, the economies of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are not taking full advantage of the internet to foster economic growth and job creation. The residents of Central Asia and the South Caucasus pay some of the highest prices in the world for internet connections that are slow and unreliable. In contrast, Europe enjoys some of the world’s fastest and affordable internet services. However, its firms and individuals are not fully exploiting the internet to achieve higher productivity growth as well as more and better jobs. Reaping Digital Dividends investigates the barriers that are holding back the broader adoption of the internet in ECA.

    The report identifies the main bottlenecks and provides policy recommendations tailored to economies at varying levels of digital development. It concludes that policies to increase internet access are necessary but not sufficient. Policies to foster competition, international trade and skills supply, as well as adapting regulations to the changing business environment and labor markets, will also be necessary. In other words, Reaping Digital Dividends not only requires better connectivity, but also complementary factors that allow governments, firms and individuals to make the most out of it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Bank Publications
    Release dateApr 14, 2017
    ISBN9781464810251
    Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia

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