Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones
Although not directly related to Pakistan, this Vodaphone sponsored research is quite interesting.

The main points of interest are:
[1] Mobile telephony has a positive and significant impact on economic growth, and this impact may be twice as large in developing countries as in developed countries;

[2] A developing country which has an average of 10 more mobile phones per 100 population between 1996 and 2003 had 0.59 percent higher GDP growth than an otherwise identical country;

[3] Fixed and mobile communications networks, in addition to the openness of the economy, the level of GDP and other infrastructure, are positively linked with Foreign Direct Investment into Africa and the impact of mobile telecommunications has grown in recent years.

The full report is available in PDF format and is available here:
http://www.vodafone.com/assets/files/en/AIMP_17032005.pdf
- posted @ Monday, March 21, 2005