فن آوري اطلاعات و ارتباطات )ICT( و رشد اقتصادي ايران

Information and Communication Technology and Iranian Economic Growth

The experimental studies have indicated that the contribution of information and communication technology to growth in developed and some developing countries are significant, particularly in the second half of the 1990s.There is still room for more investigation, specially in developing countries where the socio-economic infrastructure may not fully support the translation of ICT into economic growth. This paper employs an endogenous growth model to estimate the contribution of the ICT in the Iranian economic growth using the state space method. This study reveals a positive and significant effect of communication investment on the economic growth in the late 1990s. Our results suggest that an increase in ICT expenditure across various economic activities beside improved complementary factors will eventually lead to higher economic growth.