New technologies create opportunities

Sally Murray

No wp-2017-156, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper argues that new technologies—for communication, such as mobile phones and the internet, but also for manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and transport—have the potential to bridge many of the productivity gaps between sub-Saharan Africa and more advanced developing and developed countries. Technology can help to overcome distances between producers and consumers, knowledge and skills gaps, and energy shortfalls, and can bring down the costs of living to make wages competitive.

Keywords: Africa; Industrialization; Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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