Does internet affect economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

Manas Tripathi () and Sarveshwar Inani ()
Additional contact information
Manas Tripathi: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India
Sarveshwar Inani: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India

Economics Bulletin, 2016, vol. 36, issue 4, 1993-2002

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the long-run and short-run relationship between internet usage and economic growth for 42 sub-Saharan African countries, with the help of panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for the period 1998 to 2014. The ARDL bounds test results indicate that the internet usage and economic growth are cointegrated, and share a long-run relationship. The results show that the internet usage has a positive and significant impact on the economic growth in the long-run. However, the relevant short-run parameter is negative. Our findings have important implications for formulating the internet and economic growth policies in sub-Saharan African countries.

Keywords: Internet; GDP; Economic Growth; Panel ARDL; Cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11-09
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2016/Volume36/EB-16-V36-I4-P195.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
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:ebl:ecbull:eb-16-00577

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().