This article reviews the literature on the relationship between telecommunications and economic growth and argues that its weakness is its technocratic perspective. It then goes on to argue for an approach that does not view telecommunications as an exogenous driver of economic development, but which assesses the relationship between telecommunications and economic growth within the broader framework of global economic transformation and the location of the specific country within the matrix of a world capitalist system.
This approach is then exemplified by a study of Singapore and the stages through which its telecommunications and economic development has passed over the last 30 years.
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