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The Use and Economic Impacts of ICT at the Macro-Micro levels in the Arab Countries Paper presented at the fifth GLOBELICS Academy 2008 Ph.D. -School on “National Systems of Innovation and Economic Development” The Unit for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI), University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, June 2-13, 2008 By Samia Satti Nour UNU- MERIT/Maastricht University and Economics Department-Khartoum University Outline Introduction Aims of the research. Theoretical and Empirical literature on the importance and impacts of ICT. Economic characteristics of ICT in the Ara