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Service Exports, Institutional Quality and ICT Usage in SSA By Evans Osabuohien Adeleye Ngozi Romanus Osabohien Presented at ACRIA9, Banjul, Gambia 9-10th July, 2018
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2. Outline Background Issues The Motivation Key Objectives
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Outline
Background Issues
The Motivation
Key Objectives
Analytical Technique
Results
Key Findings & Conclusion
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3. Background Issues The issues bordering on Service Exports in SSA
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Background Issues
The issues bordering on Service Exports in SSA
Service exports: most stable (e.g. shocks) compared manufacturing, fuel & mining, and agric.
In SSA, share of exports (% of GDP) lower than other developing regions e.g. Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC); Middle East & North Africa (MENA).
E.g. service exports in GDP for SSA was 7.72% compared to 18.95% for MENA (World Bank 2017).
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4. Motivation
Indicators of institutional quality & ICT usage are lower in SSA than other developing countries.
Export potentials, as improvements in ICT especially 2000s have reduced cost of trading services.
This requires further empirical exploration, which forms one of the motivations for this study.

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Key Objectives
Investigate how Institutional Quality affects SSA’s Service Export.
Examine how ICT Usage in enhances the performance of service export in SSA countries
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6. Analytical Technique_1 (Outward Orientation)
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Analytical Technique_1 (Outward Orientation)
Service Exports
Institutional Quality
Macroeconomic Factors:
GDP growth
Exchange Rate,
Investment
ICT
Usage
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7. Analytical Technique_2
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Analytical Technique_2
Data: WDI & WGI [ ]
Sample: 34 SSA countries
Estimated using system Generalised Method of Moments (SGMM)
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8. Description of Variables & Summary Statistics
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Description of Variables & Summary Statistics
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9. Result_1 (Institutions & Service Export
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Result_1 (Institutions & Service Export
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10. Result_2 (ICT Usage & Service Export
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Key Findings
Institutional quality exerts direct and significant influence on the performance SSA’s service exports.
The usage of ICT exerts positive and significant effect on service exports in SSA
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