Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries

Since the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0), there is a stark difference in terms of economic growth between high income and middle income countries, where the former exhibits higher economic growth. Simultaneously, there exist a digital divide between these two income groups when...

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Main Author:	Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	Technology - Economic aspects Developing countries - Economic conditions Economics - Developing countries
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89890/1/SPE%202020%2027%20-%20ir.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.898902021-12-06T04:22:57Z Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries 2020-01 Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul Since the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0), there is a stark difference in terms of economic growth between high income and middle income countries, where the former exhibits higher economic growth. Simultaneously, there exist a digital divide between these two income groups when looking at three components of digitalization namely the number of individuals using the internet, number of mobile cellular subscriptions and fixed broadband subscriptions. Which begs the question, is it just a coincidence or are these components contributing toward the growth of these high income countries’ economy? If so, how does other country with low digitalization try to narrow or close the gap of the digital divide? Therefore, the first objective of the study is to examine the effects of digitalization on economic growth, where digitalization is measured by the three components stated above. Also, to reduce the digital divide, we look at the second objective, which is to identify the determinants of the digital divide. The Generalized method of moments (GMM) panel data analysis is used to estimate the model comprising data from more than 120 countries, consist of countries in the high and middle income groups, from the years 2000 to 2017. The empirical result shows that all component of digitalization used are positively and statistically significant determinants of economic growth for both countries in high and middle income. Based on the countries’ income groups, urbanization, trade openness, age population and human capital are found to be able to influence the adoption of either one, two or all three of the digitalization components in this study. At which, policy makers could devise a plan or approach to generate more trade openness, to incorporate digitalization in workplace and to provide better knowledge of digitalization, as well as to focus on increasing internet penetration rate. Technology - Economic aspects Developing countries - Economic conditions Economics - Developing countries 2020-01 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89890/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/89890/1/SPE%202020%2027%20-%20ir.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Technology - Economic aspects Developing countries - Economic conditions Economics - Developing countries Law, Siong Hook
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English
advisor	Law, Siong Hook
topic	Technology - Economic aspects Developing countries - Economic conditions Economics - Developing countries
spellingShingle	Technology - Economic aspects Developing countries - Economic conditions Economics - Developing countries Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries
description	Since the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0), there is a stark difference in terms of economic growth between high income and middle income countries, where the former exhibits higher economic growth. Simultaneously, there exist a digital divide between these two income groups when looking at three components of digitalization namely the number of individuals using the internet, number of mobile cellular subscriptions and fixed broadband subscriptions. Which begs the question, is it just a coincidence or are these components contributing toward the growth of these high income countries’ economy? If so, how does other country with low digitalization try to narrow or close the gap of the digital divide? Therefore, the first objective of the study is to examine the effects of digitalization on economic growth, where digitalization is measured by the three components stated above. Also, to reduce the digital divide, we look at the second objective, which is to identify the determinants of the digital divide. The Generalized method of moments (GMM) panel data analysis is used to estimate the model comprising data from more than 120 countries, consist of countries in the high and middle income groups, from the years 2000 to 2017. The empirical result shows that all component of digitalization used are positively and statistically significant determinants of economic growth for both countries in high and middle income. Based on the countries’ income groups, urbanization, trade openness, age population and human capital are found to be able to influence the adoption of either one, two or all three of the digitalization components in this study. At which, policy makers could devise a plan or approach to generate more trade openness, to incorporate digitalization in workplace and to provide better knowledge of digitalization, as well as to focus on increasing internet penetration rate.
format	Thesis
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author	Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul
author_facet	Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul
author_sort	Muzafar Shah, Khairul Amirul
title	Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries
title_short	Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries
title_full	Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries
title_fullStr	Impact of digitalization on economic growth in middle and high income countries
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