ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B302

    Title

 Sustainable Economic Development And The Influence Of Information Technologies: Dynamics Of Knowledge Society Transformation

    Author

 Karatas, Muhammed/ Tunca, Mustafa Zihni

    Publisher

 Information Science Reference

    ISBN

 978-1-61520-709-1

     Summary

The contents of the book includes – Section 1 – Towards sustainable economic development Chapter 1 – Why the already difficult task of identifying sources of growth has become even more challenging? Chapter 2 – Some philosophical reflections of foundations of sustainable social development Chapter 3 – Lessons for development economists from the shanghai experience, 1842-2008 Section 2 – Natural resources Chapter 4 – Natural resources accounting for sustainable development: approaches and some applications Chapter 5 – Re-conceptualising the ‘technology-development’ nexus: linking water, energy, people and governance in India Section 3 – Saving and investment Chapter 6 – The influences of savings and investments on sustainable development and the role of information technology Chapter 7 – Developing the financial infrastructure in an emerging market economy: the role of credit rating agencies Chapter 8 – Does financial liberalization and trade openness promote growth in south Asia Chapter 9 – Changing contours of Indian investment abroad: evolution, diagnosis and public policy Section 4 – Information and communication technologies Chapter 10 – Does information and communication technologies sustain economic growth? The underdeveloped and developing countries case Chapter 11 – An empirical analysis of indices and factors of ICT use by small- and medium sized enterprises in Japan Chapter 12 – Telecommunications capital intensity and aggregate production efficiency: a meta-frontier analysis Chapter 13 – Evaluating the internal capabilities and external linkages of the Philippine IT-enabled services (ITES) industry Section 5 – Knowledge society transformation and digital divide Chapter 14 – The potentials and pitfalls of the information society project in turkey: A critical assessment of policy paradigms regarding E-Transformation and digital divide Chapter 15 – Sustainable development and the digital divide among OIC countries: towards a collaborative digital approach Chapter 16 – Regional innovation strategies: Europe and turkey Chapter 17 – governance-based regional development and E-government: the Turkish case