Technological Progress via Imports and Economic Growth in Africa

Jean-Claude Maswana ()
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Jean-Claude Maswana: Ritsumeikan University

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, 2022, pp 795-814 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter investigates the effects of trade-induced technology progress (proxy by parts and components imports) on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, using a panel system-GMM estimator for the 2010–2018 period. The findings suggest that imported parts and components (our first measure of technology progress) have some impact on economic growth in at least in the MIC sub-sample. However, the impact of technology-intensive imports (our second measure of technology progress) on economic growth is not clearly evidenced. Our results also reveal that, quite surprisingly, the link between trade-induced technology progress and growth in the context of African countries is conditional to the level of economic development. Particularly, the growth effects of trade-induced technology progress—as measured by imports of parts and components—is greater in Middle-income countries than in Low-income African countries.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0_31

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