01742cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002007 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451854022 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Bayoumi, Tamim. It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries / Tamim Bayoumi, Markus Haacker. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (31 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative prices. This is important, as IT production and use are highly differentiated across countries, and implies that earlier work on how IT production affects real GDP, while useful in calibrating the overall benefits of the IT revolution, are a less valuable way of assessing the distribution of benefits. Mode of access: Internet Haacker, Markus. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/117 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/117/001.2002.issue-117-en.xml IMF e-Library