Le capital humain est-il important pour la diversification des exportations ? : L’expérience des économies d’Afrique Sub-Saharienne(ASS)

Mbondo, Georges Dieudonné and Bouwawe, Duclo and Awoutcha Tchieuzing, Romuald Fernand (2023): Le capital humain est-il important pour la diversification des exportations ? : L’expérience des économies d’Afrique Sub-Saharienne(ASS).

Abstract

This paper examines the varied effects of human capital on export upgrading in Sub-Saharan African economies. It uses a dynamic panel model by the method of generalized moments in system applied over the period 1995 2018 to a sample of 30 SubSaharan African countries. While the results reveal that human capital has a positive effect on diversification, they also show that the estimated effects are varied: the accumulation of human capital serves as a capacity for absorbing knowledge from abroad, which improves export diversification. However, although the results reveal the negative effect of the human capital-IDE interaction on diversification, the interconnection between human capital and the foreign trade of states shows a positive effect and therefore constitutes a key vector in export diversification strategies.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Does human capital matter for export diversification? The experience of the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
• Language: French
• Keywords: human capital, export diversification, varied effects, method of generalized moments in the system,
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A20 - General; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O55 - Africa

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