The New Economy in Development presents conceptual and empirical analyses of the opportunities offered by information and communications technologies (ICT). Contributors include scholars and policy makers from international organizations, and the chapters include understudied cases from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia.

BIRGETTE ANDERSEN Reader in the Economics and Management of Innovation in the School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK T.A. BHAVANI Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India DANIEL CHUDNOVSKY Professor, University of San Andrés and Director, In Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformacin (CENIT), Argentina DERRICK L. COGBURN Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information Studies and Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA MARVA E. CORLEY Economist, United Nation's International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland P.D. KAUSHIK Senior Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, India CHARLES KENNY Senior Economist, Global Information and Communications Technology Department, The World Bank, USA ANDRÉS LÓPEZ Associate Professor, Department of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and Principal Researcher at In Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformacin (CENIT), Argentina SAMIA SATTI OSMAN MOHAMED NOUR Independent Researcher MARCIN PIATKOWSKI Advisor to Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA CZARINA SALOMA-AKPEDONU Assistant Professor and Chairperson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.