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One of the major prerequisites of economic integration in a modern, complex society is the development of sound infrastructure in the telecommunications sector. The establishment of a modern, reliable, and rapidly expanding telecommunications infrastructure contributes considerably to the promotion of a variety of activities of economic expansion World Bank Telecommunications Sector Reports, Some researchers have associated the level of a country’s telecommunications infrastructure to teledensity. Saunders et al, ; Gille, Teledensity is used to refer cxpita the number of main telephone lines for every one hundred inhabitants.
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One of the major prerequisites of economic integration in a modern, complex society is the development of sound infrastructure in the telecommunications sector. The establishment of a modern, reliable, and rapidly expanding telecommunications infrastructure contributes considerably to the promotion of a variety of activities of economic expansion World Bank Telecommunications Sector Reports, Some researchers have associated the level of a country’s telecommunications infrastructure to teledensity.
Saunders et al, ; Gille, Teledensity is used to refer to the number of main telephone lines for every one hundred inhabitants. Teledensity is also used to refer to the level of a country’s telecommunications infrastructure. Least Developed Countries LDCs are defined as low-income countries that are suffering from long-term constraints against growth. In particular, these growth constraints include low levels of human resource development and severe structural weaknesses: economic, social, and political Austin, These countries are particularly ill-equipped to develop their domestic economies which are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters.
Such socio-economic and political weaknesses are therefore reflected in. There exists a very wide gap between teledensity investmsnt LDCs and that of developed countries.
The Maitland Commission described the teledensity gap as the unbalanced distribution of telephones across the world, with low teledensity, a shortage of exchange capacity, long waiting periods for acquiring a new telephone line, low quality of service, and imbalance of telecommunications infrastructure between urban and rural areas.
The ITU uses national teledensity, which is the relationship between a country’s population and the number of main telephone lines. This xapita just over one telephone main line for every people. The total number of telephone main lines in the 48 LDCs stand at about 1. LDCs are now gaining infrastruccture international attention in terms of the state of their telecommunications infrastructure Avgerou, Those residing in these countries have acknowl.
A survey undertaken in Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia and Senegal on the impact of electronic communications technology under a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development USAID shows that users in LDCs ifrastructure realizing the potentials of full Internet connections for various uses including electronic commerce.
For example, academic and research institutions have been able to conduct joint projects effectively, improve resource mobilization and carry out research between distant sites inexpensively McClelland, In view of these findings the next section infrastrudture the importance of teledensity for a country’s development.
Importance ofTeledensity. It has been well documented that world-wide there is a high correlation between the level of telecommunications infrastructure represented by teledensity and the level of economic power represented by the national per capita Gross Domestic Product GDP Saunders et al, This strong correlation was first pointed out by Jipp in as cited in Gille, Since then many studies have examined the contributions of teledensity to economy and society.
Hardy found a causal relationship between the telecommunications infrastructure and the national economy in over 60 nations. He showed that the number of telephones per million people at a particular time had a significant relationship with Infastructure at a time one period in the future.
Cronin, Parker, Colleran, and Gold statistically confirmed that the two variables representing overall US economic activity, the sum of the output of all industries and the annual Gross National Product, were causally associated capiat the annual amount of US telecommunications investment.
Colleran, Herber, and Lewitzky further showed that investment in telecommunications infrastructure represented by teledensity was a reliable predictor of national productivity in the United States.
Another study in the United States conducted by Dholakia and Harlam looked at the influence of independent variables, such as the number of business investmenr lines per employee, rural highway miles and energy consumption on economic development measured. The two dependent variables used in their study were average annual pay and per capita income. They found that teledensity was an important predictor investmfnt the two dependent variables when it was treated as a single independent variable.
Even when teledensity was combined with the other independent variables, its effect on the dependent variables was higher than the others in all but one case. Looking at teledensity in the French and Spanish economies. Berry concluded that growth of teledensity precede economic development and argued that the ultimate cost of underestimating the significance of teledensity would be quite high. Jussawalla supported the above claim in her study that shows how growth of teledensity promotes resource mobilization through improved division of labor, and hence, an agent of development.
She further argues invedtment in most economies, investment in information-oriented industries would give rise to overall demand in other sectors. Saunders discussed the benefits of teledensity in terms of financial and economic returns.
He showed that the World Bank’s teledensity investment projects brought an average financial rate of return of 18 percent and economic rate of returns ranging from 20 percent to 50 percent. Clarke and Laufenberg showed that ler of teledensity brought a variety of social benefits in addition to. Social benefits were identified in health and social service delivery, education, development projects, the stabilization of migrants and the handling of natural and social disasters.
Hudsonalso presented a number of social as well as economic benefits of telephone services in rural areas, both in LDCs and developed countries DCs. Considering the importance of growth of teledensity, LDCs have been investing in their telecommunications infrastructures in a bid to enjoy the benefits of such modern telecommunications technologies ITU, Infrastructurr study therefore examines those factors that influence growth of teledensity in LDCs.
The two main research questions follow: Is continuous investment in telecommunications infrastructure the panacea to growth in teledensity for LDCs? What are other major socio-economic factors that would influence growth of teledensity for LDCs? Research hypotheses Hundreds of billions of dollars per year are spent on telecommunication technologies, reflecting a powerful global belief in the transformatory potential of these new technologies. For multinational corporations, certainly, telecommunications have become essential.
Globalization demands such great flows of information and processing of information that it simply could not take place without telecommunications Heeks, Rizzoni stated that telecommunications investments stimulated the development in Honduras’ rural telephony program. Wellenius argues that industrialized countries that invested a much larger share of the.
GNP succeeded more rapidly in the modernization of their telecommunications networks Wellenius,p-2 A Panos Institute study reported on the paramount importance of investments in telecommunications infrastructure Panos Institute, If effective telecommunications are essential to economic survival, then the outlook for many countries seems bleak.
Telecommunications is one of the most capital-intensive industries in the world. Even this spending surge will only raise world teledensity from As the UN body, which coordinates telecommunications, the ITU maintains that if countries are to create and maintain modern telecommunications infrastructures, at least 40 percent of their telecoms revenue should be ploughed back into investment.
In the past, such investment has been chronically lacking. The resulting investment gap has become an increasing problem. As improvements in technology have gathered pace, they have spurred on runaway growth in services which rely on telecoms.
Eight billion dollars will need to be invested in Africa to infrastructute even a teledensity of one line per people, says the n u — and this assumes marked improvements in bringing down installation costs. Bearing in mind infrastructjre above findings on the fundamental importance of investments in telecommunications infrastructures, there exist a conflicting. In a study carried out by the ITU ITU World Telecommunication Indicators,in spite of current investments in telecommunications infirastructures, LDCs were still represented to be among the least developed in terms of the state of their telecommunication networks and limited range of services offered.
The study shows evidence that LDCs are falling farther behind other developing countries in the race to construct modern telecommunication networks. For example, as far back asamong commonwealth countries, Singapore a developing country generated the fourth highest telecommunications traffic after the UK, Australia, and Canada developed countriesas opposed to LDCs that currently have the lowest telecommunications traffic in the world.
ITU, The same ITU study mentioned above ITU, shows further evidence of that being the reason why LDCs are falling behind other developing countries in the race to construct modern telecommunication networks.
This is not because LDCs are not installing the latest equipment — in many cases the LDCs have modern, state-of-the-art digital networks — but rather that they are not expanding fast enough to close the teledensity gap with other developing countries. This implies that although these LDCs are investing in the latest equipment, there should be other reasons why they are not expanding fast enough to close the gap.
This leads us to our first hypothesis: o. HI: Increased investment in infrzstructure technologies is not a major determinant for growth of teledensity in LDCs. Several studies have been conducted which examine the link between teledensity and socio-economic factors.
In particular, the International Telecommunications Infrastructhre CCITT International Consultative Committee on Telephone and Telegraph has sponsored several studies which establish a strong correlation between teledensity and variables such as Cross Domestic Product GDPas well as a positive relationship between teledensity and economic development.
Conversely the same studies found a negative correlation between teledensity and population size. The results indicated that as GDP increases, telephone density increases more rapidly Saunders et al. Nevertheless the studies cited above were carried out from a global perspective without focusing on LDCs in particular. This leads us to our second hypothesis:. A CCITT comparison of employment and telecommunications in Germany suggested that although 25 percent of the economically active population was employed in agriculture, this sector accounted for only 7 percent of telephone lines and 4 percent of telephone revenues.
Commerce and transport sectors service sectors employed 16 percent of the work force, but accounted for 39 percent of telephone lines and 41 percent of revenues as reported in Saunders et al. A United Nations UN input-output study of communications patterns in 20 countries in the s suggests that communications output is primarily used by service sector inH2: As GDP per capita for a IDC increases, infrastructure investment per capita dustries, followed by infrastrcuture and mining UN, International Comwill the level of teledensity.
Other studies that have examined the The results suggest that service industries tend to be characterized by high relationship between teledensity and socio-economic factors suggest a strong value added relative to other industries.
This leads us to tional telecommunications traffic over our third hypothesis: time, the number of tourists per infrastrutcure, and the volume of international trade. H3: As contribution of the service sector share One such study, conducted by Yatrakis, to GDP in the economy of LDCs increases, sosuggests that the volume of trade will the level of teledensity. This way. These studies have established a relationship, however, is beyond the strong correlation between teledenstiy scope of this study.
Their results therefore provide a base The World Bank has conducted a num- from which to examine the relationber of telecommunications studies us- ship between teledenstiy and various ing structural economic analysis. These socio-economic factors for both develstudies model telecommunications as oped and developing countries in genan input into the production process eral. Other studies, as earlier mentioned, and postulate that telecommunications focused on developing countries in services are not equally important to all general.
However, none has focused exsectors of the economy. Various coun- clusively on the relationship between try studies suggest that telecommuni- the teledensity and socio-economic faccations services are innfrastructure intensively tors for LDCs in particular.
This paper therefore examines the 48 LDCs worldwide with teledensity of less than one. The three hypotheses are summarized in figure I. The list was most recently updated in December with the «graduation» of Botswana and the addition to ped list of two new countries, Angola and Eritrea. There were 25 LDCs in the original group inindicating that the number has virtually doubled in 20 years.
Old criteria for inclusion The original set of criteria for constructing a list of countries classified as LDCs was adopted in These were: 1. Share of industrial production in the Cross National Product CNP under 10 percent, adult literacy rate less than 20 percent. New criteria for inclusion New criteria for determining Inffastructure were established in 1.
Population less than 75 million; 2. Economic diversification index EDI less than Population: It was decided that from rainfall, and rainfall availabilityex population size will explicitly port of petroleum as a percentage of be taken into account, and countries total exports, and official development larger than 75 million, inhabitants assistance as a percentage of CNP.
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The visualization shows that this was the result of growth specifically in social spending. Log in. As we can see, the salaries of public servants and other government employees are an important component of invesmtent spending in most countries. Infrastructure investment is a key determinant of performance in the transport sector. As a Premium user you get access to background information and details about the release of this statistic. We begin with an analysis of historical trends, and then move on to analyze recent investmdnt in public spending patterns around the world. Accessed: December 28, Historical data on government expenditure. Industry-specific and extensively researched technical data partially from exclusive partnerships. A big part of the difference between these two measures can be attributed to the fact that one of them accounts only for central government expenditures — indeed, most ivnestment infrastructure investment per capita above a line with slope one, which suggests that local government expenditure is not negligible. Journal of Monetary Economics, 76, The most important statistics. Embed code Use this code to embed the visualisation into your website. Government spending in early-industrialised countries grew remarkably during the last century. Because onfrastructure accounts may not include all central government units such as social security fundsthey usually provide an incomplete picture. Your perfect start with Statista.
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