The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty

Jinhua Zhao

No RP2005-41, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new technologies to developing countries. Adoption of new technologies can be hindered by uncertainties about their efficiency. This paper studies the role of information exchange between adopters and others about a new technology and about each other's likelihood of adoption. We show that information about the technology can reduce adoption at the beginning of the diffusion process and increase adoption later. Information about each other increases adoption at the beginning and reduces adoption later on.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Globalization; Information technology; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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