英文文献:The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business-知识经济在非洲商业中的作用
英文文献作者:Vanessa Tchamyou
英文文献摘要:
This paper assesses the role knowledge economy (KE) in African business in 53 countries for the period 1996-2010. The four KE components of the World Bank are employed, notably: education, innovation, economic incentives & institutional regime and information & communication technology. The business indicators are classified into: starting, doing and ending business. Principal components analysis and panel instrumental variable fixed effects approaches are employed as empirical strategies. The findings which are broadly consistent with intuition and the predictions of economic theory suggest that KE policies will substantially boost the starting and doing of business in Africa. This is relevant in fighting unemployment and improving African competitiveness in global value chains. Policy implications for the relevance of each specific KE dimension in African business are discussed with particular emphasis on the theoretical underpinnings of the study. The investigation is original in its contribution at the same time to the scarce literature on African KE and the growing challenges of improving the business climate of the continent by means of KE.
本文评估了知识经济(KE)在1996-2010年期间53个国家的非洲商业中的作用。世行采用了四大要素,特别是:教育、创新、经济激励与体制机制以及信息与通信技术。业务指标分为:开始、做和结束业务。实证策略采用主成分分析法和面板工具变量固定效应法。研究结果与直觉和经济理论的预测大体一致,表明KE政策将极大地促进非洲商业的起步和开展。这对解决失业问题和提高非洲在全球价值链中的竞争力具有重要意义。讨论了非洲商业中每个特定KE维度的相关性的政策含义,特别强调了研究的理论基础。该调查是原创的,它同时贡献了稀缺的文献关于非洲KE和日益增长的挑战,以改善非洲大陆的商业气候通过KE。