Olga Morawczynski|Ojelanki Ngwenyama
Unraveling the Impact of Investments in ICT, Education and Health on Development: An Analysis of Archival Data of Five West African Countries Using Regression Splines
University of Edinburgh
abstract decade african nations investing information communication technologies icts strategy fostering development auspices international development agencies united nations un world bank nations constituting implementing technology strategies aim bring digital opportunities constituentsespecially impoverished living remote communities strategies put new demands national governments invest human financial resources expansion telecommunications infrastructure training new users investments however received scrutiny claim developing nations focus limited financial resources improvement education healthcare others argue ict investments vital development synergized others education healthcare study employ multivariate adaptive regression splines mars explore interaction amongst investments ict education healthcare analyze class investments impacts human development measures five west african nations benin cameroon senegal ivory coast niger analysis illustrate interdependencies amongst three classes investments conclude investments icts alone enough significantly impact human development complementary investments education healthcare must given equal consideration