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The Impact of Internet on Economic Growth in North Africa: New Empirical and Policy Analysis

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The purpose of this paper is to treat the impact of the Internet on growth for a sample in the case 4 economies of the North Africa over the period 1995-2017 using various techniques such as the ARDL bounds testing approach, Panel ARDL Model, OLS Fixed Effect, OLS Random Effect, FMOLS, 2 SLS, RLS, GLM, and GMM. Indeed, for the time series results, the ARDL highlights reported the presence of a negative impact of the Internet on economic growth in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. Also, the main results of the Panel data models confirm the fact that the Internet exerts a significant negative impact on growth for North Africa as a whole. These economies are invited to orient the use of the Internet towards productive ways to reap the benefits of the spread of the Internet and proactively enhance the prosperity in this region as a whole.


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Bakari, S., & Tiba, S. (2020). The Impact of Internet on Economic Growth in North Africa: New Empirical and Policy Analysis. Journal of Applied Economic Sciences, Volume XV, Fall, 3(69), 605-616. https://doi.org/10.57017/jaes.v15.3(69).09

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