Marbán Flores, RaquelGómez Barroso, José Luis2024-05-202024-05-202020eISSN 1879-3258https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101905https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11841A review of the literature on the relation between telecommunications and economic development published since the turn of this century is undertaken. Two stages have been considered: until 2008, most contributions continued to examine the role of telecommunications taken together; since 2009, the impact of broadband –and, to a lesser extent, of mobile communications– dominates the research agenda. All in all, the role of telecommunications as a catalyst to leverage economic growth has been conclusively proven over the years. Taking into consideration the shortcomings of previous research, suggestions for future work are also providedeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessjournal articletelecommunicationseconomic developmentgrowthbasic infrastructurebroadbandmobile communications