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Impact of Digital Infrastructure on Indian Economic Growth

Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

Volume 59 Issue 1

Published: 2023
Author(s) Name: Suman Makkar, Aarushi Rajpal | Author(s) Affiliation: Department of Evening Studies, Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
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Abstract

Digital Infrastructure has become a significant necessity for economic growth acting complementary to traditional social and economic infrastructure factors like health, education, power and roads. It lays down roots of connectivity, availability and affordability facilitating better distribution of resources. With strong technological development like high quality broadband, mobile connectivity and digitalization India aims to become a digitally empowered economy. The present study attempts to analyze role of Digital Infrastructure in contributing to Indian economic growth during 2001-2019 using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration. It has been observed that Fixed Telephone Subscription has negative impact on economic growth while Mobile Cellular Subscription impacts it positively. Though Fixed Broadband Subscription impacts significantly in short run but has insignificant impact in the long run.

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