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Of Flying Geeks and O-Rings: Locating Software and IT Services in India’s Economic Development

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David O’Connor
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This paper offers an analytical framework for understanding the evolution of India’s software industry and its place in the broader economy. It then considers how well the framework helps to answer three questions: i) What difference has the IT sector made to aggregate economic performance, at national and at state level? ii) What has been the impact of IT-sector growth on income distribution and on poverty? iii) What policy or other measures might enhance the benefits of the sector’s growth to ordinary Indians? ...


Ce document propose un cadre analytique permettant de comprendre l’évolution de l’industrie du logiciel en Inde et la place de ce secteur dans l’économie du pays. Les auteurs évaluent ensuite la pertinence de ce cadre par rapport à trois grandes questions: i) le secteur des TI a-t-il modifié les performances économiques globales du pays au niveau national et dans les différents États? ii) quel a été l’impact de la croissance du secteur des TI sur la répartition des revenus et la pauvreté? iii) quelles politiques ou quels autres types de mesures pourraient permettre d’améliorer les retombées de cette croissance pour l’ensemble de la population indienne? ...

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Paper provided by OECD, Development Centre in its series OECD Development Centre Working Papers with number 224.

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