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Abstract In the industrially advanced societies of the West, economic development has invariably been accompanied by a structural shift of labor from the primary and secondary production Sectors to the tertiary or service sector. A systematic analysis of the service sector would show that the “commodity” on which this sector acts is “information.” The increasing importance of “information” for control and management in an “advancing” society is the primary reason for the structural shift of labor to the service sector. In this paper the critical importance of the service sector to development is emphasized and it is argued that information technology that underpins activity in this sector is an appropriate technology for speeding‐up socioeconomic development in the third world countries.
Raghavan Narasimhan (Sat,) studied this question.