Internet Adoption Trends during COVID-19

David Amaglobeli, Mengfei Gu, Marian Moszoro, Yue Zhou and Patricia Escalante

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper examines the common perception that internet adoption accelerated globally during the COVID- 19 pandemic. The data show little evidence of a faster expansion of access to internet (extensive margin) across all country income groups but strong evidence of acceleration in the improvement in the quality of connectivity (intensive margin). The data also support that, despite a decline in internet prices over the past decade, affordability of digital services remains a concern for low-income developing countries.

Keywords: Internet Adoption; Digitalization; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in IMF Note 2023/001 (2023): pp. 1-10

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/117231/1/2023_IMF_Note_Internet_Adoption.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:117231

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().