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close this bookDiffusion of Information Technology - Experience of Industrial Countries and Lessons for Developing Countries (WB, 1995, 230 p.)
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Open this folder and view contentsInformation technology and its diffusion
Open this folder and view contentsAn analytical framework for information technology diffusion
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