چکیده:
A attempt is made to establish a link between ICT sector investment
and economic growth and to assess the specific impact on the
productivity of the economy through network of 10 industrial sectors.
By using improved techniques comprising input and output technique
and economic modeling, that results suggested that ICT productivity has
outpaced the economy wide productivity level. Furthermore, we found
that ICT was a negatively contribute to the performance of economic
system as a whole. Indeed the analysis conducted in this paper shows
that more industries especially service sector have not been benefited
from the incorporation of advances in telecommunications technology
which might have, amongst other things, emanated from the policy of
discouraging information investment in their production processes. To
achieve this, the government must address a number of policy and
regulatory issues to ensure the sector’s continued growth and its
extension into underserved areas.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Impact of Diffusion of Information Communications Technology (ICT) on Iran Sectoral Productivity Growth Tayebeh Farahani 1 Abstract A n attempt is made to establish a link between ICT sector investment and economic growth and to assess the specific impact on the productivity of the economy through network of 10 industrial sectors.
Indeed the analysis conducted in this paper shows that more industries especially service sector have not been benefited from the incorporation of advances in telecommunications technology which might have, amongst other things, emanated from the policy of discouraging information investment in their production processes.
The latter refers to ICT induced development through enhanced productivity, competitiveness, growth and human welfare resulting from the use of this technology by different sectors of the economy and society.
Strategy of ICT growth for promoting export earning is not favour in Iran, because of the whole of economic segments are not extended and they are limited to just one segment of the economy and high cost production of ICT goods and services compare to another developing and developed countries.
So, an attempt is made in this paper the impact of ICT investment empirically on sectoral productivity growth level as well as economy as a whole by using input-output model.
As mention above, ICT can have been strongly contribution on national and sectoral productivity and economic growth, therefore this study examines the impact of ICT investment on sectoral productivity of Iran by using improved techniques comprising input and output technique."