The following article has been retracted from publication:
Article title: Biometric identification, financial inclusion and economic growth in India: does mobile penetration matter?
Authors: S. Ghosh
Journal: Information Technology for Development
Citation information: Saibal Ghosh (2018): Biometric identification, financial inclusion and economic growth in India: does mobile penetration matter?, Information Technology for Development, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2018.1540390 (latest articles)
Version of Record Published Online: 30 October 2018
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We, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Information Technology for Development, have retracted the following article:
Saibal Ghosh (2018): Biometric identification, financial inclusion and economic growth in India: does mobile penetration matter?, Information Technology for Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2018.1540390, Version of Record published online 30th October 2018
The Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology for Development and Taylor & Francis note that the policy of the journal is to consider only original material, and that authors are required to make a warranty to the effect that articles are not under consideration for publication by any other journal. The article was published in good faith. It has since become known that a similar article was submitted to and published in Innovation and Development simultaneously:
Saibal Ghosh (2019): Financial inclusion, economic growth and mobile telephony in India: analysing the nexus, Innovation and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2019.1570623, Version of Record published online 31st January 2019
In our investigations, a high level of similarity was further discovered between the Information Technology for Development article and the following two articles:
Saibal Ghosh (2016) Does mobile telephony spur growth? Evidence from Indian states, Telecommunications Policy, 2016, 40 (10–11), 1020–1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2016.05.009, Available online 15 June 2016
Saibal Ghosh (2016), How important is mobile telephony for economic growth? Evidence from MENA countries, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 2016, 18 (3), 58–79, https://doi.org/10.1108/info-12-2015-0058, Accepted 02 March 2016
As this is contrary to our stated policy and Ethics for Authors, the article is further retracted on these grounds.
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