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Interrogating the association between current account and economic complexity: A selected Sub-Saharan Africa and BRICS comparative analysis

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  • Sehludi Molele

    (Senior Lecturer (PhD), School of Economics and Management, University of Limpopo, Limpopo Province, South Africa)

  • Thobeka Ncanywa

    (Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Limpopo, Limpopo Province, South Africa)

Abstract

The study was meant to provide a comparative analysis of the association between economic complexity and the current account performance for selected Sub-Saharan Africa and the BRICS group. Economic complexity measures the sophistication of a country’s productive structure by combining information on the diversity of a country (the number of products it exports), and the ubiquity of its products (the number of countries that export that product). The objective was to investigate whether a short- and long-term relationship exists through a Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PARDL) for 1994 – 2018. Additionally, agricultural exports were also incorporated to measure against the economic complexity Index (ECI). On the current account-ECI relationship, the PARDL estimates exposed a positive and significant impact from ECI on the current account performance in both groups in the long run, while short-run results were insignificant. On the other hand, agricultural exports were an insignificant predictor of the current account in both groups in the long run. However, only the BRICS realised a significant negative contribution in the short-run. Hence, it is essential, especially the still developing selected SSA, to improve upon its ECI to facilitate a current account improvement better. There is a need to modernise the agricultural and agro-industries in the selected SSA. The region should harness the full potential of its agricultural sector and also the overall, abundance of raw resources to advance process-led products for the export market. Key Words:Current account, Economic complexity, Sub-Sahara Africa, BRICS, PARDL.

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  • Sehludi Molele & Thobeka Ncanywa, 2022. "Interrogating the association between current account and economic complexity: A selected Sub-Saharan Africa and BRICS comparative analysis," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 11(10), pages 160-170, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rbs:ijbrss:v:11:y:2022:i:10:p:160-170
    DOI: 10.20525/ijrbs.v11i10.2081
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