# Professor Michael Spence comments on new research showing how digital technology can drive inclusive economic growth

1 Faculty News January 29, 2019 ![ Networks Asia logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Networks-Asia-logo-feature.jpg?itok=ZfGBIlSh)>

Excerpt from [Networks Asia](https://www.networksasia.net/article/how-digital-technologies-can-provide-more-access-economic-opportunity.1548732711) -- "'This report on digitally enabled growth patterns in China is very interesting. The data show that the mobile internet, e-commerce, mobile payments and internet-based financial services together have accelerated overall growth and produced startlingly inclusive growth patterns in multiple dimensions. The report documents this, and explains why these effects occur,' said [Michael Spence](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence), 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and professor at New York University."

[Read more](https://www.networksasia.net/article/how-digital-technologies-can-provide-more-access-economic-opportunity.1548732711)