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All visitors are invited to share with the WSIS Lab their research results, publications, analytical reports, that prove direct impact of broadband. The visitors are invited to post information using blog or sharing it with the team of the WSIS Lab via mail at wsis-stocktaking@itu.int.
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By Adriaan van Zon and Evans Mupela
In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we show how welfare measured by utility per head increases as the number of connected regions increase.
We assume a common connectivity infrastructure implemented by satellite, through which the 'Great Connector' (GC) is able to add new regions to the pool of connected regions by taking a tax form those already connected. We find that increasing production costs leads to faster transitions towards the steady state whereas increasing transportation and communication costs tends to lengthen the transition.
The results point to reductions in transportation and communication costs in particular as a suitable vehicle to speed up growth. The results also show a strong positive effect of reductions in the cost of making new connections. This has a significant impact on both the steady state growth rate and on transitional growth, while significantly reducing the transition period.
The paper can be downloaded from:
www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2010/wp2010-001.pdf
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“In times of economic crisis, national governments are looking for immediate policy actions to deal with rising unemployment and declining output. Infrastructure investments have been singled out in the economic and policy debate as being tools of recovery. In this respect, broadband technology is key to providing one of the needed economic stimuli, not only in terms of construction, but also resulting in longer term externalities, such as accelerated innovation and new business creation”
This study is a quantitative analysis of a national broadband strategy’s impact on a Germany's economy by Prof. Dr. Raul L. Katz, Dr. Stephan Vaterlaus, Patrick Zenhäusern, Dr. Stephan Suter and Dr. Philippe Mahler (Columbia Business School with Polynomics AG for Deutsche Telekom AG).
The study quantifies the macroeconomic impact of investment in broadband technology on employment and output of Germany’s economy. Two investment scenarios (2014 and 2020) are defined. The main key findings is that the economic impact of broadband development over a ten year period in Germany amounts to 968,000 additional jobs and EUR 170.9 billion in incremental output.
Please, draw your attention to this excellent study.
Extract from the study:
The Impact of Broadband on Jobs and the German Economy is available on:
www.polynomics.ch/dokumente/Polynomics_Broadband_Study_E
Please download updated document on Economic Impact of Broadband: Global Review of Evidence.
