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Industries without smokestacks: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet—the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies.

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  • Cláudio R. Frischtak, 2017. "Industries without smokestacks: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-6, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Sally Murray, 2017. "New technologies create opportunities," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-156, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Sally Murray, 2017. "New technologies create opportunities," WIDER Working Paper Series 156, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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