Bit of help and opinions appreciated......

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blomoff

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Ok i have to research and produce a seminar to disprove the following statement..........


"The effective use of ICT's by enterprises can result in greater productivity leading to greater competiveness and thus sustainable economic growth"

Any help be appreciated, thanks in advance......
 
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well - my advice is thus, think of an argument, and back it up.

whether or not it is true is immaterial. Im assuming your gonna get graded in some way for this. id be trying to think of ways where ICT is problematic (in my work for instance, our systems always going down, and an hour of downtime costs thousands in productivity, as everything is done through a screen) and then using examples to prove your point. unfortunately, like morbyd says, in all cases it is true!

the problem word in that statement is efficient. how can something that is efficient not be an aid?
 
My economics is a bit rusty, but the bit I would focus on is the sustainable economic growth. Economic growth through efficiency gains isn't sustainable (vs other countries) without simultaneous population growth.

Or at least not as far as I remember. :P

Might be worth checking with an economics text book..........
 
Gibbon_rider said:
My economics is a bit rusty, but the bit I would focus on is the sustainable economic growth. Economic growth through efficiency gains isn't sustainable (vs other countries) without simultaneous population growth.

Or at least not as far as I remember. :P

Might be worth checking with an economics text book..........
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Naw... I think if you have productivity growth (usually synonymous with efficiency gains) then you can have growth without population growth... but usually there is a plateau with the productivity gains you'll get out of the introduction of a new technology.

The question is, can you continue to improve the technology and therefore continue to improve productivity? Probably, at some point, gains from implementing good ICT begin to level off.
 
If it's an economics paper, you can talk about the diminishing returns to the introduction of a new technology (as Morbyd says with his Plateau), which brings the growth rate of an economy down to it's 'steady-state', and therefore no economic growth per capita (as I said).

And you can talk about the Solow Computer paradox, which says that although techonolgy should have increased the efficiency and productivity of developed societies, empirically it hasn't.

If it's an IT paper, I have no clue......
 
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