Does ICT Participate in Economic Convergence among Asian Countries: Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data ModelBilal Mehmood () and Parvez Azim () Informatica Economica, 2013, vol. 17, issue 2, 7-16 Abstract: Conventional Convergence models usually oversee the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a determinant of convergence. This paper introduces ICT as a factor contributing towards economic convergence in Asian countries. In addition to ICT, other factors like demographic traits, level of human development and electricity consumption are used as regressors. System GMM technique is used to estimate convergence regression for se-lected Asian countries for data of time span 2001-2010. Support for ICT-augmented conver-gence is found, implying that ICT has the tendency to participate in convergence process. Suitable demographic features, human development and electricity consumption are also found to contribute to economic convergence in the sample countries of Asia. Findings of this paper indicate the need to complement the favorable demographic endowments in Asian economies with economically productive usage of ICT to proceed towards economic convergence in Asian Region. Keywords: Convergence Models; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); System Generalized Method of Moments (SYS-GMM); Human Development Index (HDI); Electricity Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aes:infoec:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:7-16 Access Statistics for this article Informatica Economica is currently edited by Ion Ivan More articles in Informatica Economica from Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania Contact information at EDIRC. |
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