Growth Gap between China and Africa: Do Digital Technologies Matter?

Joseph Pasky Ngameni (), Ludovic Feulefack Kemmanang () and Sylvain Bertelet Ngassam ()
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Joseph Pasky Ngameni: University of Dschang
Ludovic Feulefack Kemmanang: University of Dschang
Sylvain Bertelet Ngassam: University of Dschang

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, No 2, 24-43

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to appreciate the impact of the digital technological on the growth gap between China and thirty African countries for the 2000–2016 period. In this case, the digital technological is captured by two variables. The first is internet penetration and is exports of information and telecommunication goods (in percentage of total exports). Whether digitisation is measured with internet penetration rate or exports of information and telecommunication goods, Kao (1999) and Pedroni (2004) cointegration tests have been performed to appreciate the existing of the long run effect between endogenous and exogenous variables. Moreover, pool mean group estimates has been used. The main results suggest that the digital gap between China and Africa has a positive and significant effect on the economic growth gap. Thus, increasing investments in this sector in Africa would enable the continent to benefit from externalities produced in order to reduce this gap and pave the way for emergence.

Keywords: Digital; Growth gap; Pool mean group; China; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 O47 O53 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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