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Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43965 Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita Moyo, Solomon ichelp@gibs.co.za Andrews, Neill UCTD Quantitative research Gross domestic product (GDP) Competition -- Africa Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. Competitiveness 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. lmgibs2015 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2015-03-13T08:25:08Z 2015-03-13T08:25:08Z 2015-03-24 2014 Mini Dissertation Andrews, 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> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43965 en © 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. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Quantitative research Gross domestic product (GDP) Competition -- Africa Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title | Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title_full | Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title_fullStr | Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title_full_unstemmed | Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title_short | Driving factors for national competitiveness in Africa as measured by GDP per capita |
| title_sort | driving factors for national competitiveness in africa as measured by gdp per capita |
| topic | UCTD Quantitative research Gross domestic product (GDP) Competition -- Africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43965 |