Information Technology, Innovation System and Trade Regime in Developing Countries: India and the ASEAN

by K. Joseph

Overview

By highlighting the factors that configured the emergence of India as an ICT superpower from the South and limited success of some countries that long since embraced liberal trade regime, this volume highlights the ways to transform the digital divide into digital dividend. Drawing from the detailed case studies of India and five ASEAN countries, it establishes the complementary role of innovation system and trade regime in promoting production and use of ICT and draws lessons for other developing countries that adopted a liberal trade regime to catch up with the ICT revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230004924
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

K.J. JOSEPH is Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, India.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• India: An IT Powerhouse of the South
• Thailand: From Investment led Growth to Innovation led Growth
• Cambodia: Between Pentium and Penicillin
• Lao PDR: Hastening Slowly?
• Myanmar: Sowing but not Harvesting?
• Vietnam: Another Tiger in the Making?
• ICT and the Developing Countries: Towards a Way Forward