Titre : | Enhancing North Africa’s Infrastructure for Improved Competitiveness (2015) |
Auteurs : | Thierry Urbain Yogo ; Audrey Verdier-Chouchane |
Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
Dans : | African Development Rreview = (Vol. 27 N°3, September/Septembre 2015) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 274-287 |
Langues: | Français |
Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > situation économique > développement économique > croissance économique [Eurovoc] ENTREPRISE ET CONCURRENCE > organisation de l'entreprise > politique de l'entreprise > compétitivité [Eurovoc] GÉOGRAPHIE > Afrique > Afrique du Nord |
Résumé : | This paper aims at assessing the relationship between infrastructure development and competitiveness in North Africa. Based on the World Bank data, we analyze the infrastructure indicators of four North African countries over the period 1996–2012 and estimate the elasticity of competitiveness with respect to infrastructure development. We first argue that competitiveness could be improved by investing more on infrastructure. Although comparison with sub-Saharan Africa reveals that important progress has been made in North Africa in terms of quantity, countries need to improve the infrastructure quality by investing in green energy, in maintenance, in public private partnerships and in regional infrastructure. Econometric analysis confirms that a 1 percent increase in infrastructure quality raises competitiveness by 0.64 percent. Country specific elasticity is respectively 0.22 in Algeria, 1.42 in Egypt, 0.36 in Tunisia and 0.56 in Morocco. Based on these results, appropriate policy recommendations are discussed. |
Axe de recherche : | Intégration des pays en développement dans l'économie mondialisée |
En ligne : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01216663 |