CAN ICT SERVICES BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES?

In all the economies of the world, Economic Growth presents a good indicator of development, and so it is always necessary to examine the factors influencing this growth. Many recent studies show that one of the factors that influence economic growth is ICT services. We will show in this paper that ICT services have an impact on economic growth in African countries. In fact, working on a panel of 28 African countries, we were able to identify through the Solow and Swan (1956) and Mankiw, Romer and Weill (1992) models, that ICT services exports haves a positive and statistically significant effect on economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]