Trajectories of knowledge economy in SSA and MENA countries
Simplice Asongu and
Antonio Andres
Technology in Society, 2020, vol. 63, issue C
Abstract:
In the first critical assessment of knowledge economy dynamic paths in Africa and the Middle East, but for a few exceptions, we find overwhelming support for diminishing cross-country disparities in knowledge-based economy dimensions. The paper employs all the four components of the World Bank's Knowledge Economy Index (KEI): economic incentives, innovation, education, and information infrastructure. The main finding suggests that sub-Saharan African (SSA) and the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries with low levels of KE dynamics and catching-up their counterparts of higher KE levels. We provide the speeds of integration and time necessary to achieve full (100%) integration. Policy implications are also discussed.
Keywords: Knowledge economy; Principal component analysis; Panel data; Convergence; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F42 O10 O38 O57 P00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)
Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X18303439
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
Related works:
Working Paper: Trajectories of Knowledge Economy in SSA and MENA countries (2019)
Working Paper: Trajectories of Knowledge Economy in SSA and MENA countries (2019)
Working Paper: Trajectories of Knowledge Economy in SSA and MENA countries (2019)
Working Paper: Trajectories of Knowledge Economy in SSA and MENA countries (2019)
Working Paper: Trajectories of Knowledge Economy in SSA and MENA countries (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:63:y:2020:i:c:s0160791x18303439
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.03.002
Access Statistics for this article
Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown
More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu (repec@elsevier.com).