A Conceptual Policy Framework for Leveraging Digitalization to Support Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Conceptual Policy Framework for Leveraging Digitalization to Support Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Mame Astou Diouf. This book was released on 2024-06-21. A Conceptual Policy Framework for Leveraging Digitalization to Support Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to diversify their economies is more urgent than ever. However, despite its established economic benefits, several challenges have precluded diversification in SSA. Against this backdrop, interesting initiatives to further adopt digital technologies, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggest that digitalization is a promising avenue to overcome barriers to diversification. Fast-paced advances in the diffusion of digital technologies and knowledge have the potential to transform SSA economies through several channels. By connecting people and facilitating the rapid diffusion of information, digitalization also promises to reshape the industrial structure of activities in new and unprecedented ways. Therefore, digitalization has the potential to promote diversification and growth in SSA by acting both as an enabler and driver of economic activities, helping support resilience. Yet, while the empirical literature on SSA suggests that digitalization can provide new opportunities for growth, employment, productivity, and inclusion, the impact on diversification has not been studied. This paper aims to fill this important gap in the literature. It also aims to strengthen IMF engagement with SSA policy makers by providing a conceptual policy framework, encompassing both horizontal and sectoral policies, on how to leverage digitalization to support diversification and boost resilience in a post-COVID world.
FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries
FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries write by Mr.Amadou N Sy. This book was released on 2019-02-14. FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. FinTech is a major force shaping the structure of the financial industry in sub-Saharan Africa. New technologies are being developed and implemented in sub-Saharan Africa with the potential to change the competitive landscape in the financial industry. While it raises concerns on the emergence of vulnerabilities, FinTech challenges traditional structures and creates efficiency gains by opening up the financial services value chain. Today, FinTech is emerging as a technological enabler in the region, improving financial inclusion and serving as a catalyst for the emergence of innovations in other sectors, such as agriculture and infrastructure.
Digital Connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective
Digital Connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective write by Mr.Emre Alper. This book was released on 2019-09-27. Digital Connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Higher digital connectivity is expected to bring opportunities to leapfrog development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Experience within the region demonstrates that if there is an adequate digital infrastructure and a supportive business environment, new forms of business spring up and create jobs for the educated as well as the less educated. The paper first confirms the global digital divide through the unsupervised machine learning clustering K-means algorithm. Next, it derives a composite digital connectivity index, in the spirit of De Muro-Mazziotta-Pareto, for about 190 economies. Descriptive analysis shows that majority of SSA countries lag in digital connectivity, specifically in infrastructure, internet usage, and knowledge. Finally, using fractional logit regressions we document that better business enabling and regulatory environment, financial access, and urbanization are associated with higher digital connectivity.
China’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks
China’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks write by Ms.Longmei Zhang. This book was released on 2019-01-17. China’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China’s digital economy has expanded rapidly in recent years. While average digitalization of the economy remains lower than in advanced economies, digitalization is already high in certain regions and sectors, in particular e-commerce and fintech, and costal regions. Such transformation has boosted productivity growth, with varying impact on employment across sectors. Going forward, digitalization will continue to reshape the Chinese economy by improving efficiency, softening though not reversing, the downward trend of potential growth as the economy matures. The government should play a vital role in maximizing the benefits of digitalization while minimizing related risks, such as potential labor disruption, privacy infringement, emerging oligopolies, and financial risks.
The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies
The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies write by Paolo Guerrieri. This book was released on 2011-01-01. The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies offers a profoundly illuminating examination of ICT transformations in Europe and its critical role in greater social inequality. It presents scholars and policy makers with original and practical tools to benchmark and assess the ICT diffusion and inclusion process. The core message of book is that a coherent European strategy for embedding ICT technologies in society is long overdue. Social differences in ICT use persist and are in some cases widening, yet despite this fact there is a dearth of research on remedying digital inequalities. This is of particular importance given that relative levels of ICT use, investment and research can often explain variations in economic performance between industrialised countries. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the literature by presenting key evidence on the economic benefits (and costs) deriving from investment in an inclusive information society. The authors propose indicators and indexes of digital development and e-Inclusion (and its flip-side e-exclusion) to assess the relationship between inclusive ICT and wider economic and social performance in Europe. Presenting the methodology to monitor countries' performance and ICT use, together with original measures and policy suggestions, this book will be indispensable to policymakers, scholars and postgraduate students in a variety of areas including economic growth, innovation, industrial and organizational studies, information and technology, European studies, and public and social policy.
