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With globalization, technology transfers are spreading, and information communication technologies can help to close the country’s technological gap. In the context of the information economy, the internet has become one of the important components of human life. It is also known that the internet that facilitates the communication of information has a relationship with the economic variables. This study aims to investigate the impact of internet use on economic growth in 21 countries called emerging market economies. For this purpose, panel data analysis was carried out using data from the period 1995-2017 of 21 countries. The Internet use indicator is "Internet user number / population" and the economic growth indicator is "a non-clean domestic increase per person". The study also added control variables such as the inflation rate, the rate of public spending to GDP and non-profit capital formation. The findings obtained in the study indicate that the use of the internet in the data range analyzed in the rising market economies has a negative impact on economic growth. The findings are consistent with the results obtained in literature and indicate that Solow's Productivity Paradox is valid in the countries examined.

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