Does ICT access and usage reduce growth inefficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Désiré Avom,
Gilles Dufrénot (lopaduf@aol.com) and
Sylvie Eyeffa
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Désiré Avom: Université de Yaoundé II
Gilles Dufrénot: AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEPII - Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales - Centre d'analyse stratégique
Sylvie Eyeffa: Université de Yaoundé II
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Abstract:
This paper investigates whether or not the access to and use of ICT can help African countries reduce their growth inefficiencies. Inefficiency is measured, on the one hand, by the gap between a country's growth rate and its own frontier, and on the other hand by the relative position of each country compared to the best achievers. We find that if countries were doing a better job of controlling corruption and improving citizen participation in politics, they would achieve higher growth efficiency performance by using ICT. When countries are compared with each other, considering the growth "frontier" as countries in the sample, then growth differentials are explained primarily by non-ICT factors of growth (human capital, schooling rates, capital growth rates, etc.). The role of ICT factors is secondary. But they contribute to growth to a greater extent for the best achievers (compared to the lowest and middle achievers) because they are better endowed with ICT factors than the others.
Keywords: ICT; African countries; growth inefficiency; frontier; quantiles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03-01
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