This repository is the home of the DICE model.
While universal broadband infrastructure cost modeling is an established field, most assessments are usually carried out at the national level for a single country.
Although country-specific assessments are extremely important for providing highly detailed strategic information, a key weakness is that such approaches have poor external statistical generalization of the key findings to other contexts.
Indeed, only recently have research efforts begun to take more of a cross-country global assessment approach, utilizing harmonized global datasets for model inputs, to provide enhanced systematic insight across many markets.
A key challenge in enabling this type of assessment has been developing a model, both general and flexible enough, to account for many different country contexts. This is the contribution DICE makes.
- Oughton, E.J., Amaglobeli, D., Moszoro, M., 2023. Estimating Digital Infrastructure Investment Needs to Achieve Universal Broadband. IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 2023/027. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/02/10/Estimating-Digital-Infrastructure-Investment-Needs-to-Achieve-Universal-Broadband-529669.
- Edward Oughton - George Mason University (eoughton@gmu.edu)
- David Amaglobeli - FAD, International Monetary Fund
- Mariano Moszoro - FAD, International Monetary Fund