Evolution of Telecommunications and Mobile Communications in India

2011 ◽  
pp. 170-192
Author(s):  
Chandana Unnithan ◽  
Bardo Fraunholz
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Mobile Business ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up

Electronic business is a concept that has been adopted by businesses all over the world. The developing world takes it as a viable economic opportunity to catch up with other economies. A significant underlying factor in this development is the evolution of telecommunication infrastructure, especially in developing economies. In this chapter, we have synthesized this critical evolution in India. In the process, we found that there is a second layer of evolution into mobile communications and subsequently mobile business, which is gaining momentum in India. We conclude with an outlook for the future for these developments.

Evolution of Telecommunications and Mobile Communications in India

2009 ◽  
pp. 2323-2342
Author(s):  
Chandana Unnithan ◽  
Bardo Fraunholz
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Electronic Business ◽  
Mobile Business ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up

Electronic business is a concept that has been adopted by businesses all over the world. The developing world takes it as a viable economic opportunity to catch up with other economies. A significant underlying factor in this development is the evolution of telecommunication infrastructure, especially in developing economies. In this chapter, we have synthesized this critical evolution in India. In the process, we found that there is a second layer of evolution into mobile communications and subsequently mobile business, which is gaining momentum in India. We conclude with an outlook for the future for these developments.

scholarly journals Structural Transformation around the World: Patterns and Drivers

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Kunal Sen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Stylized Facts ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Productivity Gains

The conventional view of structural transformation is informed by three stylized facts of economic development: (i) all economies exhibit declining employment in agriculture, (ii) all economies exhibit a hump-shaped share of employment in industry, and (iii) all economies exhibit an increasing share of employment in services. In this paper, I show that this presumed path of structural transformation may no longer be the route to economic development in low-income economies. Classifying economies as either structurally developed, structurally developing, or structurally underdeveloped, I observe a different path of structural transformation in structurally underdeveloped economies in which workers are moving directly from agriculture to nonbusiness services, which as a sector does not have the same productivity gains as manufacturing. I also show that the mainstream approach is unable to explain the patterns of structural transformation observed in low-income developing economies. This suggests the need to rethink the theoretical premises behind much of the mainstream approach to structural transformation and to identify alternate causal mechanisms to explain the different types of structural transformation underway in the developing world.

scholarly journals n-Logue: The Story of a Rural Service Provider In India

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Jhunjhunwala ◽  
Anuradha Ramachandran ◽  
Alankar Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time

Can rural Information Communication Technology (ICT) be an effective tool to bridge the digital divide? How can the Internet help developing nations and their disadvantaged in particular? Those who lobby in favour of rural ICT believe that Internet is not just a means of communication but is also an enabler of livelihood in rural areas and therefore, power. For a very long time now, the developing world has carried the burden of colonization and slavery. This has resulted in a lack of confidence among developing economies and the belief that they are not at par with the rest of the world. The lack of "access" has curtailed their ability to compete. In fact, ingenuity and hard work hasn't been adequate for one to enjoy economic and social benefit. In order to acquire these benefits, access to resources like education, health and employment become critical. Internet has been a boon in this regard. Today, one can be in the remotest corner of the world and as long as there is access to Internet enjoy access to education, health and resources. This allows them to compete and use their ingenuity and hard work to bring about a significant difference to their lives. This paper concentrates on how ICT can affect the lives of rural people in the developing world. The total rural population of the developing world is about 3.5 billion, with their average per capita income being no more than $200 per year. India, with 700 million rural people located in 600,000 villages, is a reflection of the developing world. The key issue that is addressed in the paper is whether technology can bring about a difference in the lives of people who earn less than half a dollar a day. Can health and education be made available to them? Can they afford the Internet? And ultimately, can it significantly enhance their livelihoods and income?

Ringtone

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Doz ◽  
Keeley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
The Doors

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. This book explores and analyzes that journey and distills observations and lessons for anyone keen to understand what drove Nokia’s amazing success and sudden downfall. It is tempting to lay the blame for Nokia’s demise at the doors of Apple, Google, and Samsung, but this would be to ignore one very important fact: Nokia had begun to collapse from within well before any of these companies entered the mobile communications market, and this makes Nokia’s story all the more interesting. Observing from the position of privileged outsiders (with access to Nokia’s senior managers over the last twenty years and a more recent, concerted research agenda), this book describes and analyzes the various stages in Nokia’s journey. This is an inside story: one of leaders making strategic and organizational decisions, of their behavior and interactions, and of how they succeeded and failed to inspire and engage their employees. Perhaps most intriguingly, it is a story that opens the proverbial “black box” of why and how things actually happen at the top of organizations. Why did things fall apart? To what extent were avoidable mistakes made? Did the world around Nokia change too fast for it to adapt? Did Nokia’s success contain the seeds of its failure?

scholarly journals Drivers of Firm’s Value: Panel Data Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjit Tiwari ◽  
Brajesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
Value Drivers ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
The World

<p>The purpose of this paper is to classify the value drivers into broad categories and then identify the major drivers of firm’s value for Indian manufacturing industry and also work out the sectorial sensitivity of value drivers. To achieve the objectives of the study we first derive the value driver’s model next we use panel regression with different model specifications to empirically analyse the major drivers of firm’s value. Our study reveals that sales, net margin, book value, dividend per share, beta and earnings per share are the six major financial drivers of value. All the strategic drivers when included in the model have significant relation with value without disturbing the r-square of the model. Thus, it is clear that apart from generic financial drivers, firms need to put more attention on strategic choices they make, because it is the strategic choice that will give firms an edge over others in developing economies like India. Further, we also observe sector specific priorities of the value drivers. This paper provides academicians and practitioners with an overview of the applicability of value drivers for Indian manufacturing industry. Further, the study will fill the gap in literature by adding value drivers’ evidence from one of the fastest growing economies in the world and will benefit researchers in arriving at common consensus for value drivers in emerging economies. </p>

Forecasting the impacts of climate variability: lessons from the rainfed corn market in Ceará, Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARIASTER B. CHIMELI ◽  
FRANCISCO DE ASSIS DE SOUZA FILHO ◽  
MARCOS COSTA HOLANDA ◽  
FRANCIS CARLO PETTERINI
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Arid Zone ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Forecast Models ◽  
Climatic Impacts ◽  
Semi Arid

ABSTRACTA number of studies show that climatic shocks have significant economic impacts in several regions of the world, especially in, but not limited to, developing economies. In this paper we focus on a drought-related indicator of well-being and emergency spending in the Brazilian semi-arid zone – rainfed corn market – and estimate aggregate behavioral and forecast models for this market conditional on local climate determinants. We find encouraging evidence that our approach can help policy makers buy time to help them prepare for drought mitigating actions. The analysis is applicable to economies elsewhere in the world and climatic impacts other than those caused by droughts.

Schistosomiasis in modern and ancient tissues

1970 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Epidemiology Study ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Schistosoma worms are ancient, infecting man in both in the past and modern times. Today they infect more than 300 million people, mainly in the developing world where lifestyle is still similar to their ancestors. As part of an epidemiology study of Schistosomiasis, ancient tissues from the Manchester Museum and collections around the world are now being tested for the disease. Many problems have arisen whilst working with the ancient tissues, ranging from accessibility to its preparation for tests. However, many of the problems encountered have now been overcome enabling immunocytochemistry to be successfully applied to infected modern and ancient tissues, suggesting that schistosoma antigens can survive thousands of years. Immunocytochemistry has continued to be the predominant test used for this study, although DNA, ELISA and microsomal strips are also being explored

The World in the Process of Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Russia

2011 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
S. Chebanov
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
International Security ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Academic Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
90Th Anniversary ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Current Stage

This is a publication of the materials of academic conference “The world in the process of change: challenges and opportunities for Russia” held in April 2011 in IMEMO and chaired by academician A. Dynkin, the Institute’s Director. The conference was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of academician N. Inozemtsev. In their reports the Conference participants analyze the Russian economic and political development at the current stage, the issues of modernization, the problems of the developing world, international security in the XX century, etc.

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