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CIRJE-F-152 Digital Development: Challenges and Prospects Haider A. Khan University of Denver / CIRJE, The University of Tokyo May 2002 Discussion Papers are a series of manuscripts in their draft form. They are not intended for circulation or distribution except as indicated by the author. For that reason Discussion Papers may not be reproduced or distributed without the written consent of the author. Digital Development: Challenges and Prospects Haider A. Khan GSIS University of Denver Denver, Co. 80208 hkhan@ and Visiting Professor, CIRJE, Graduate School of Economics University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Tel.03-5841-5642 Fax 03-5841-8294 Revised, March 2002 April, 2002 Abstract In the fast developing digital technological revolution even the newly industrialized economies (the NIEs) have found it hard to catch up and maintain the pace required for not falling behind. The so-called developing economies are clearly at a great disadvantage in such a fast paced technological race. Thus there is a digital divide that is growing and through a cumulative causation the gap will widen further unless coo