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000332524 041__ $$aeng
000332524 245__ $$aManufacturing Export, ICT Infrastructure and Institutions in ECOWAS Countries
000332524 260__ $$c2014
000332524 269__ $$a2014
000332524 300__ $$a20
000332524 336__ $$aConference Paper/ Presentation
000332524 500__ $$aPresented at the 17th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Dakar, Senegal
000332524 520__ $$aThis study empirically examined the relationship between manufacturing export and ICT infrastructural provision, and underscored how institutional quality can influence such relationship using 15 ECOWAS countries (2000-2012). This stemmed from the fact that infrastructural provision in ECOWAS sub-region is low and there is a drive by the regional community to improve infrastructure for enhanced trade outcomes. We used the Systems Generalised Method of Moment-SGMM technique to address possible issues of endogeneity and reverse causality. Our result reveals that the current level of infrastructural provision in ECOWAS countries cannot translate into improved trade benefit. However, institutional development in this region can circumvent this shortcoming. The results are robust with the inclusion of some alternative estimates.
000332524 546__ $$aEnglish
000332524 650__ $$aInternational Relations/Trade
000332524 650__ $$aResearch Methods/Statistical Methods
000332524 6531_ $$ainfrastructural provision
000332524 6531_ $$amanufacturing value added
000332524 6531_ $$amanufacturing export
000332524 6531_ $$adynamic panel data
000332524 6531_ $$ainstitutions
000332524 6531_ $$aECOWAS
000332524 6531_ $$aeconomic development
000332524 6531_ $$aeconomic growth
000332524 6531_ $$adomestic policy analysis
000332524 6531_ $$atrade in services
000332524 700__ $$aOsabuohien, Evans
000332524 700__ $$aEfobi, Uchenna
000332524 773__ $$j2014
000332524 8564_ $$925f47e22-00e7-421b-bb32-060546c07483$$s852139$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332524/files/6697.pdf
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