The dynamic impact of ICT on the economic growth in the developing countries

Abstract

This paper explores the impact of the information communication and technology (ICT) on the economic growth in the developing countries, the study collect a data for 33 years (1990-2022) and a panel of eighteen developing countries , the purpose is to evaluate how the using of the ICT’s impact the economic growth in the short and long term. Employing a panel series and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co-integration approach. Our research incorporates some key economic indicators such as GDP growth, individual using of the internet (INT), mobile cellular subscriptions (MCS), and gross fixed capital formation (GFCF). Our empirical results indicate a co-integration link between the variables based on Westerlund test. The results of (PMG-ARDL) reveal that (INT) negatively affect the GDP growth in both the short and long run, those results elucidate that a 1% increase in (INT) results in a -1.02% and -0.03% growth in growth economic. However, the same output showed that the MCS positively effect the economic growth, in the long term, a 1% increase in the MCS results in a 0.001% growth in the GDP growth, and a 0.04% in the short run. The robustness check using (CS-ARDL) showed that the ICT is negatively affect the economic growth in both short and long run. The causality test indicate that both of MCS and INT cause the economic growth.