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Growth Gap between China and Africa: Do Digital Technologies Matter?

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  • Joseph Pasky Ngameni

    (University of Dschang)

  • Ludovic Feulefack Kemmanang

    (University of Dschang)

  • Sylvain Bertelet Ngassam

    (University of Dschang)

Abstract

This study aims to appreciate the impact of the digital technological on the growth gap between China and thirty African countries for the 2000–2016 period. In this case, the digital technological is captured by two variables. The first is internet penetration and is exports of information and telecommunication goods (in percentage of total exports). Whether digitisation is measured with internet penetration rate or exports of information and telecommunication goods, Kao (1999) and Pedroni (2004) cointegration tests have been performed to appreciate the existing of the long run effect between endogenous and exogenous variables. Moreover, pool mean group estimates has been used. The main results suggest that the digital gap between China and Africa has a positive and significant effect on the economic growth gap. Thus, increasing investments in this sector in Africa would enable the continent to benefit from externalities produced in order to reduce this gap and pave the way for emergence.

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  • Joseph Pasky Ngameni & Ludovic Feulefack Kemmanang & Sylvain Bertelet Ngassam, 2022. "Growth Gap between China and Africa: Do Digital Technologies Matter?," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(1), pages 24-43, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s13132-020-00716-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s13132-020-00716-3
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    Keywords

    Digital; Growth gap; Pool mean group; China; Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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