Published date: Oct 22 2018

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: International Conference on Economics, Business and Economic Education 2018 (ICE-BEES 2018)

Pages: 198–210

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v3i10.3129

Purwanti .purwanti1504@gmail.com

D Maya Nihayah

The study aims to analyze the causality between development of telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth in ASEAN. The study uses annual time series data from ten ASEAN member countries for the period 1986-2015. The variables employed in this study are development of telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth which analyzed using granger causality test. The evidences show that there is unidirectional causality between development of telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth in Brunei Darussalam, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Philippines in line with the views of SLH. Then Singapore shows bidirectional causality in accordance with the views of FBH. Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam in line with the views of NLH show no causal relationship between the two variables

Keywords: telecommunications, infrastructure, economic growth, causality

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