Khaled Elmawazini, Albright College, PA, USA
Mohd Shukri Hajinoor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Ibrahim Ngouhouo, University of Dschang, Cameroon & University of Toulon, France
Abstract: Previous empirical studies focus on the impact of globalisation on economic growth. This paper contributes to the empirical literature by examining the hypothesis that globalisation widened the technology gap between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the industrialised countries from 1980 to 2002. To investigate this hypothesis, the measures of technology gap and globalisation are identified and the Least Squares Dummy Variable (LSDV) and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) panel data models are used. Our main result shows that globalisation widens the technology gap between SSA and the rest of the world. This result may be due to the weakness of technology inflows and innovation and imitation activities in the SSA.
