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What can Hirschman tell us about the digital economy and development?

This is a short blog piece on the ict4dblog discussing whether Hirschman’s conceptualisation of economic growth are relevant for digital development

While there is a growing appetite for digital rules, what we don’t have yet are clear frameworks by which these different policy ideas can cohere into overarching (and successful) digital development strategies.

In this post, I consider whether Albert Hirschman’s models of unbalanced growth might provide a useful framework to guide policy strategies.

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