Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between ICT and Economic Growth in Tunisia

Saidi, Kais; Hassen, Lobna Ben; Hammami, M.Sami

doi:10.1007/s13132-014-0204-9

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“…Fixed and random effects show that ICT had an insignificant negative impact on economic growth in African countries studied, a result that is in line with Khalili et al (2014) findings. On the other hand, the pooled OLS and dynamic GMM approaches indicates a non-significant positive relationship running from ICT towards economic growth, a finding that resonates with other studies such as Nasab and Aghaei (2009), Kim (2007), Kirmani et al (2015), Sibanda and Ramrathan (2015), Saidi et al (2015), Stanley et al (2018) and Niebel (2014), among others.…”

Section: Panel Co-integration Testssupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Despite the rather ambiguous empirical evidence, the World Bank (2012) takes an optimistic view stating that ICT has great promise to reduce poverty, increase productivity and boost economic growth. Moreover, economists predict that economic growth is driven by investments in ICT (Saidi et al, 2015). The view is shared by the available theoretical literature (Nasab and Aghaei, 2009;Kirmani et al, 2015;Sibanda and Ramrathan, 2015).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Several recent empirical studies (Khalili et al, 2014;Niebel, 2014;Ortiz et al, 2015;Saidi et al, 2015;Aghael and Rezagholizadeh, 2017;Stanley et al, 2018;Karlsson and Liljevern, 2017;Das et al, 2016;Shahbaz et al, 2016;Tuyisabe et al, 2018) have investigated the impact of ICT on economic growth. The findings from these empirical studies are mixed, diverse and divergent.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology and Economic Growth in an African Context

Chimbo

2020

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The study had two main objectives. Firstly, to investigate the impact of ICT on economic growth. Secondly, to explore whether energy consumption and human capital development are channels through which ICT influences economic growth in Africa. Whilst literature is unanimous when it comes to the positive impact of ICT on economic growth, not much has been investigated on the impact of the complementarity between (1) ICT and energy consumption and (2) ICT and human capital development on economic growth, especially in the African context. The current study used fixed effects, random effects, pooled OLS and the dynamic GMM with annual panel data ranging from 2001 to 2015. Whilst fixed and random effects show a significant positive relationship running from ICT towards economic growth, pooled OLS and the dynamic GMM produced results which show that ICT had a non-significant positive influence on economic growth in Africa. The interaction between ICT and energy consumption had a significant negative effect on economic growth across all the panel data analysis methods. The finding means that ICT enhanced economic growth through its energy efficiency impact in Africa, consistent with Lee and Brahmasrene (2014). The interaction between ICT and human capital development was found to have had a significant positive effect on economic growth in Africa, in line with Ortiz et al. (2015) whose study revealed that the complementarity between ICT and education enhanced economic growth. The study therefore urges the African continent authorities to develop, strengthen and implement sound human capital development in order to enhance the impact of ICT on economic growth. African countries are also urged to implement sound ICT growth policies in order to trigger energy efficiency led economic growth.

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Section: Panel Co-integration Testssupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology and Economic Growth in an African Context

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2020

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“…In addition to showing that manufacturing sectors benefit from foreign direct investment only after a certain ICT development threshold, the authors suggest also that Tunisia should strengthen its ICT infrastructure. The positive impact of ICTs on economic growth was highlighted also by Saidi et al ( 2015 ) who analyze the relationship between the rate of growth of GDP and the index of ICT use for Tunisia during 1975–2008. Nevertheless, we lack a good understanding of the overall contribution of ICTs to sectoral value added in Tunisia, and most sectoral analyses are biased because they fail to count for cross-sectoral heterogeneity and cross-sectoral dependence.…”

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ICT, trade openness and economic growth in Tunisia: what is going wrong?

Dahmani

Mabrouki

Youssef

2022

Econ Change Restruct

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In the age of digital globalization, information and communication technologies (ICT) and international trade seem to have become the engines of economic growth. In this study, we investigate the impacts on Tunisia’s economic growth of using ICTs and greater trade openness. We employ a cross-section augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) model and apply Dumitrescu and Hurlin Granger causality test to panel data for 14 economic sectors in the period 1995–2018. The empirical findings suggest that use of ICTs has a long-term relationship with value added and increased economic growth in Tunisia. In addition, trade openness and gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. We also examine the relationships among these variables in the short and long run. The Dumitrescu and Hurlin test reveals four bidirectional and two unidirectional causal relationships between the variables.

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“…E.Brinnolfsson, E.Mak Kafi, D.Birn və s. alimlər isə əks fikri dəstəkləyirlər və İKT-nin inkişafının yeni təsir dalğasını qeyd edirlər. K.Saidi[20] göstərir ki, İKT sferası üzrə həyata keçirilən texniki inkişaf həm İKT sahəsinə, həm də bütövlükdə, iqtisadi sahələrə kapital axınını sürətləndirmiş və müəyyən struktur islahatların həyata keçirilməsinə, iqtisadiyyatın yenidən qurulmasına gətirmişdir. İqtisadi artımın həm də birbaşa İKT investisiyaları əlaqədar olmasına görə bu məqalədə Tunisdə iqtisadi artımla İKT-nin təsiri arasındakı asılılıqlar araşdırılmışdır.…”

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İkt-Ni̇n İqti̇sadi̇ İnki̇şafa Təsi̇ri̇ Və Onun Ekonometri̇k Qi̇ymətləndi̇ri̇lməsi̇ni̇n Metodoloji̇ Aspektləri̇

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2019

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Məqalədə milli iqtisadiyyatın inkişafına təsir edən İKT-nin rolu araşdırılmışdır. İKT-nin iqtisadi artıma təsiri üzrə beynəlxalq səviyyəli mövcud elmi məqalələr təhlil edilmişdir. İqtisadi artımın mahiyyəti, onu xarakterizə edən amillər və göstəricilər müəyyənləşdirilmişdir. İKT sektorunun iqtisadiyyatın inkişafında mühüm əhəmiyyətə malik olduğu göstərilmişdir. İKT-nin tətbiq səviyyəsinin Ümumi Daxili Məhsula (ÜDM) təsiri təhlil olunmuşdur. Azərbaycanda İKT ilə iqtisadi inkişaf arasındakı asılılıq ekonometrik metodlarla qiymətləndirilmiş və müvafiq tövsiyələr verilmişdir. İKT ilə ÜDM arasında korrelyasiya əlaqələri qurulmuş adekvat reqressiya modeli ilə yoxlanılmışdır. İKT sektorunun gəlirləri ilə ÜDM arasında, ÜDM ilə qeyri-neft ÜDM-i arasında əlaqələrin ekonometrik metodlarla qiymətləndirilməsi aparılmışdır.

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Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between ICT and Economic Growth in Tunisia

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology and Economic Growth in an African Context

Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology and Economic Growth in an African Context

ICT, trade openness and economic growth in Tunisia: what is going wrong?

İkt-Ni̇n İqti̇sadi̇ İnki̇şafa Təsi̇ri̇ Və Onun Ekonometri̇k Qi̇ymətləndi̇ri̇lməsi̇ni̇n Metodoloji̇ Aspektləri̇

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