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    2. Africa short on phones despite mobile phone growth

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004-09
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24022
    Journal Title:
    Appropriate Technology
    Journal Title Details:
    31(3) : 49
    Notes:
    Apart from describing the shortage of mobile phones, the report indicates that growth in mobile phone usage is concentrated in urban areas and is "creating a widening communication gap between rural and urban communities."

    5. Can information and communication technologies be pro-poor?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Forestier, Emmanuel (author), Grace, Jeremy (author), and Kenny, Charles (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2002-12
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19147
    Journal Title:
    Telecommunications Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    26(11) : 623-646
    Notes:
    This study "finds that, historically, telecommunications rollout has had a positive and significant impact on increasing inequality and little impact on quality of life variables." Authors also find evidence that the Internet will also be a force for income divergence.

    6. Competition without privatization: the case of China

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wang, Wensheng (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25437
    Notes:
    Pages 122-132 in Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (eds.), Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: the potential of telecommunications. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 362 pages.