The impact of digital transformation on the economy Econometric modelling April 2025
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Foreword
Executive summary
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The evolution of ICT after the pandemic: descriptive statistics
     2.1 Progress in broadband connectivity
     2.2 Increasing broadband affordability
     2.3 Dichotomy of broadband coverage
     2.4 Stagnating capital investment in telecommunications
3 The economic impact of fixed broadband through 2023
     3.1 Fixed broadband and its impact on the economy to the end of 2020
     3.2 Fixed broadband and its impact on the economy through 2023
4 Mobile broadband and its impact on the economy through 2023
     4.1 Mobile broadband and its impact on the economy until 2020
     4.2 Mobile broadband and its impact on the economy through 2023
5 Global analysis of fixed and mobile broadband and its impact on the economy through 2023
6 Digitization and its impact on the economy through 2022
     6.1 A new measurement of digitization
     6.2 Digitization and its impact on the economy until 2021
     6.3 Digitization and its impact on the economy through 2022
7 Conclusions and policy implications
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APPENDICES
     A.1 Fixed broadband models: global sample
     A.2 Fixed broadband models: regional models
     A.3 Mobile broadband models: global sample
     A.4 Mobile broadband models: regional models
     A.5 Digitization models
     B.1 Methodology - Countries analysed
     B.2 Methodology - Data sources for models testing the economic impact of fixed and mobile broadband
     B.3 Indicators included in the Digital Ecosystem Development Index and data sources
     B.4 Econometric methodology