IFS Researchers will be working with researchers at the London Business School on a project investigating the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in Brazil and India. This will involve collecting new firm-level data through surveys. The research will examine the role of infrastructure, human capital and organisation in ICT adoption process. We will look at the impact of adoption on performance, employment and wage structures. There is currently little evidence on the potential role of ICT in developing countries. These two countries make interesting studies in part because Brazil has a well-developed ICT infrastructure and India has a largely undeveloped and highly localised infrastructure. The research will be interesting both in the development context and also because we are able to exploit variation in infrastructure availability that we do not see in OECD countries.