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Determinants of Usages and Access to the Internet Services in Côte d’Ivoire

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The development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is strongly dependent on the dynamism of the telecommunications sector, which is the major infrastructure. For nearly a decade, the sector has been undergoing reforms aimed at opening it to competition anywhere in the world, and Africa in particular. With the technological advances (mobile telephony, Internet, copper cable, optical fiber, wireless local loop, ADSL, etc.), the convergence of voice-data-image and regulation tools, the impact of the telecommunication sector or the digital industries on the real economy has uncovered the concept of ‘a new economy’, wherein we take into consideration the effects of ICT on the economic growth and development.

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  1. Auguste K. Kouakou
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  1. National Statistical Office of Luxembourg, Belgium

    Serge Allegrezza (Director General) & Anne Dubrocard (Head of Research Unit) (Director General) &  (Head of Research Unit)

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Kouakou, A.K. (2012). Determinants of Usages and Access to the Internet Services in Côte d’Ivoire. In: Allegrezza, S., Dubrocard, A. (eds) Internet Econometrics. Applied Econometrics Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230364226_5

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