Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita

dc.contributor.advisorMoyo, Solomon
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateAndrews, Neill
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-13T08:25:08Z
dc.date.available2015-03-13T08:25:08Z
dc.date.created2015-03-24
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractCompetitiveness has been part of central, monetary policy making for over 500 years where regions have aimed to improve competitiveness and productivity by focussing on specific factors. The focus of the research was to identify which factors are most relevant for the African continent on determining competitiveness which will allow policy makers to understand how best to direct their investment with the greatest productivity return. The research methodology was quantitative in nature, based on secondary data from the Global Competitiveness Report over the past five years. The sample included 39 of the 54 African countries which are the countries on which the report collected data from. The unit of analysis was GDP per capita. A multivariate Generalised Linear Model with a log link function and Gamma error structure was built. The results showed that the order of importance for Africa was macroeconomic stability; infrastructure; technological readiness; and market size with the other factors not having a material influence. Building a similar model on all the countries have included two additional factors namely health and primary education as well as higher education and training. This indicates that certain structural factors are more important for countries in the developing phase such as Africa.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMBA
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.description.librarianlmgibs2015en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAndrews, N 2014, Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43965>en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/43965
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectQuantitative researchen_ZA
dc.subjectGross domestic product (GDP)en_ZA
dc.subjectCompetition -- Africaen_ZA
dc.titleDriving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capitaen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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