Technological Utilization in Africa: How Do Institutions Matter?

Uchenna Efobi and Evans S. Osabuohien
Additional contact information
Evans S. Osabuohien: Covenant University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Technology and Innovation for Social Change, 2015, pp 67-84 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Though quite a lot has been said about the role technology (e.g. Information and Communication Technology – ICT) can play in economic growth of countries, not much is known on how institutions and economic development can influence the relationship especially in Africa where available indicators show low level of ICT utilisation. Based on the above, we examine how institutional quality and economic development can interact to determine the extent of ICT utilisation in 45 African countries. The main results show that a unit improvement in institutional quality and human capital development will advance the level of ICT utilisation. We submit that human capital development that is built on strong institutional quality is crucial if African countries greatly desire to enhance ICT utilisation and optimally experience the associated benefits.

Keywords: Economic development; Human capital; Institutional quality; Sub-Saharan Africa; System GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

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:spr:sprchp:978-81-322-2071-8_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9788132220718

DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2071-8_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().