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Digital Economy Report 2019
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- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report titled ‘Digital Economy Report (DER) 2019’.
- DER was formerly known as the Information Economy Report.
- It examines the scope for value creation and capture in the digital economy by developing countries.
Highlights of the report
- The ICT sector is the largest in Taiwan Province of China, Ireland, and Malaysia.
- The global computer services industry is dominated by the United States.
- India has the largest share among developing countries in the computer services industry.
- Also, India ranked fourth in terms of growth in the share of the ICT sector’s value-added in GDP between 2010 and 2017.
- In “Share of ICT services in total exports of services: Top 20 countries, 2017”, India ranked 2nd which is topped by Ireland. India is the largest developing-country exporter of such services.
- The three of the largest producers of telecommunication services are developing countries, namely China, India, and Brazil.
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