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| Contributor | Félicien Donat Accrombessy, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique (INSAE), Bénin |
| Title of paper | How Africa's sub-Saharan developing countries can profit of the new economy context marked by the implosion of communication? |
| Abstract | With the globalisation of the economy, accompanied by its multiple overthrows of trades and exchanges systems and with the revolution of new technologies of communication, the implosion of networking, we assist to a rapid increase of the economics productivity. The new economy seems to accelerate the gap between developing and developed countries. For example, more than 700 millions persons use Internet in the world but how much of them are living in developing countries? The multinational companies spread their hegemony beyond the countries geographic borders. The most important part of the world wealth is concentrated by a few groups of firms while the technological progress is still continuing at a great speed. In the same time, most of the developing countries, especially, Africa's Sub-Saharan countries, seem being to the gap of the world trade. According to the United Nation Development Program report 2000 on human development, hardly 1% of the sub-Saharan Africa's countries populations have access to internet against 26.3% in United States of America. But these Africa's countries can, with efficient policies, pull out great benefits of the new technologies of communication, which subtend the new economy. Then, this paper attempts to show the ways these countries should insert themselves favourably the new economy process and its gigantic supported technology. Finally, some recommendations are provided to the actors of those developing countries. |
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