Are Mass Media and ICTs Associated with Inequality and Poverty?

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay ()

A chapter in Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting, 2014, vol. 22, pp 185-216 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This paper examines associations of mass media and information and communications technologies (ICTs) with inequality and poverty. It has been found that newspaper circulation has a robust negative association with inequality. Radios and TVs also have a negative association with poverty. ICT expenditures (as a percentage of GDP) have a negative association with poverty. An ICT index is constructed which also has a negative association with poverty. An instrumental variable analysis confirms the robust negative association between newspaper circulation and inequality.

Keywords: Information and communications technologies; mass media; economic development; poverty; inequality; D30; D80; O1; O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520140000022005

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