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The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa
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This study analyses the impact of the use of digital technology on economic growth for 39 African countries from 2012 to 2016. This analysis applies a system GMM estimator to understand the extent to which the usage of digital technology facilitates growth using a measure of digitalisation from the Networked Readiness Index. Unlike previous research, we distinguish between the impact of individual, business, and government ICT usage on growth and show that only individual usage has a positive impact. Furthermore, a disaggregated analysis of the types of usage reveals that two indicators, social media and the importance of ICTs to government vision, are significant for growth.
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- Authors
- Solomon, E. M., & van Klyton, A.
- Venue
- Utilities Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-12
- Volume
- 67
- Pages
- 101104
- ISSN
- 0957-1787 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3081532640
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 32.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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