Digital Economies at Global Margins

Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Within the last decade, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prospe...

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Other Authors: Graham, Mark (Editor)
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Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
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