Information and communication technology penetration level as an impetus for economic growth and development in Africa

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1745661" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1745661</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1745661" target="_blank" >10.1080/1331677X.2020.1745661</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Information and communication technology penetration level as an impetus for economic growth and development in Africa

Original language description

Africa is an emerging, frontier economy that is gradually becoming a gold miner of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0) to achieve speedy economic growth and development. Through the transmission channel of technological drive that relies on the penetration of modern communication means (information and communication technology [I.C.T.]). It is on this basis that this study examines the performance of I.C.T., economic growth and development in Africa. In capturing I.C.T. performance; penetration of I.C.T. indicators – mobile telephone, fixed-line telephone and Internet access subscriptions are used as measurements and reduced to a single index through principal components analysis (P.C.A.). Economic growth and development is measured with the real gross domestic product and the human development index (H.D.I.), respectively. The data for this study were sourced from the international telecommunication union (I.T.U.) and world development indicators from the World Bank databases. The results show that mobile telecommunication is growing faster than other telecommunication indicators and I.C.T. penetration has positive impacts on economic growth and development in Africa. The study, therefore, recommends that simultaneous investments are required in the fixed-line and Internet access telecommunications in Africa in order to fully tap into the optimal impetus of I.C.T. penetration for economic growth and development in Africa.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Economic research-Ekonomska istrazivanja

ISSN

1331-677X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1394-1418

UT code for WoS article

000531026000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084361931