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Conclusion

Giuditta De Prato, Daniel Nepelski and Jean Paul Simon

As noted the two sets of countries offer a different historical profile with reforms dating back from the 1990s for “Chindia” and even earlier policies for the “dragons”, but there were different kinds of later reforms that focused on IT. The chapters accounted for their specificity; however, it should be stressed that the four countries have achieved impressive results in terms of economic growth, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the ICT sector was at the core of their economic growth. ICT has been a major contributor to this growth and led a pioneering role for other sectors. The ICT sectors are export oriented (hardware or software) and “born global”.

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