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Globalization, Information Technology and Development

By: J. James

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Hardcover | 24 February 1999 | Edition Number 1

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The impact of globalization and the development of information technology are two of the most important themes for understanding the international economy and the prospects of developing countries today. Jeffrey James assesses and develops the insights of the often separate literatures on these subjects, to show that globalization and information technology are mutually dependent. The central insight is the notion that globalization is mainly a technological phenomenon driven by influences exerted on international trade and foreign investment by various forms of information technology. Not only does this technology reduce the costs of communication and coordination in the trade of existing goods and services, but it also permits into international trade a number of products that were previously untraded. And whereas this technology serves on the one hand as an important source of comparative advantage in international trade, it is itself also an export sector that is and has been growing very rapidly. Developing countries, however, are not sharing equally in the gains from globalization thus induced by the new technologies. These gains tend to be concentrated among a narrow group of relatively advanced countries. Within some of those countries, moreover, information technology appears to exacerbate existing patterns of technological dualism and income inequalities, although in other countries a number of offsetting influences can also be discerned.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Economics International Economics Development Economics & Emerging Economies Political Economy Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Mind, Body, Spirit Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Society & Culture

Social Issues & Processes Globalisation Politics & Government International Relations

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Information Technology and Globalization	p. 1
International Dimensions
Differential Access to Communications Technologies	p. 17
Industrial Information Technologies and Comparative Advantage in International Trade	p. 33
International Trade and Foreign Investment in Information Technology	p. 50
Information Technology and Foreign Direct Investment	p. 65
Conclusions	p. 82
National Dimensions
Globalization, Information Technology and National Inequalities in Developing Countries	p. 101
New Technologies, Employment and Labour Markets in Developing Countries	p. 116
Postscript: a Note on Globalization, Information Technology and World Inequality	p. 155
Index	p. 161
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