Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249066 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/21/055
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Information and communication technology (ICT) has a crucial role in the individual, businesses and cooperative lives of citizens. Many studies on ICT access tend to concentrate on the supply side of improving access to ICTs; however, limited efforts have been made to examine the households' demand side. Thus, this study contributes to the extant literature by investigating the demand side of ICT access by households. It also examines the socioeconomic characteristics that affect the households' access and usage of ICTs, which create a somewhat digital divide between 'ICT have' and 'have not' in Burkina Faso and Ghana. It employs Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for both Burkina Faso and Ghana 2014 in achieving its objectives. The results, among others, underscore different threshold effects in access to ICTs Burkinabe and Ghanaian households. Thus, to enhance the households' ICT access, and consequently, usage the features of the households should be taken into consideration when developing ICT access policies.
Subjects: 
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Households
ICT access and Usage
Threshold effect
JEL: 
O14
R22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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