Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228041 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/064
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects value added across sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, the enhancement of mobile phone and internet penetrations respectively have net negative effects on value added to the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.Second, enhancing ICT (i.e. mobile phone penetration and internet penetration) overwhelmingly has positive net effects on value added to the service sector. From an extended analysis, enhancing ICT in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors should exceed certain thresholds for value added, notably: 114.375 of mobile phone penetration per 100 people for added value in the agricultural sector and 22.625 of internet penetration per 100 people for added value in the manufacturing sector.
Subjects: 
Economic Output
Information Technology
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
E23
F21
F30
L96
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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