ICT AND HUMAN CAPITAL INTENSITIES IMPACT ON ASEAN5 PRODUCTIVITY

Year 2009, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 1 - 8, 01.06.2009

Dr.elsadig Musa Ahmed

Abstract

This study assesses the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) and human capital intensities on productivity of ASEAN5 (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippine, Singapore and Thailand). The factors identified as influencing the labour productivity of ASEAN-5 are the individual contributions of capital deepening (intensity), ICT intensity, human capital intensity and the simultaneous contribution of the quality of these factors. That is expressed as the total factor productivity (TFP) intensity. The results show that the productivity growth of ASEAN-5 is input-driven. The study also finds that the impact of ICT and human capital intensities appears to have been reasonable with little contribution of TFP intensity growth. The results also confirmed that capital intensity had strongly significant role in achieving reasonable labour productivity contribution that produced by these economies through using huge input to produce output.

Keywords

Information And Communications Technology (ICT), Asean5, Total Factor Productivity (TFP)

ICT AND HUMAN CAPITAL INTENSITIES IMPACT ON ASEAN5 PRODUCTIVITY

Abstract

This study assesses the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) and human capital
intensities on productivity of ASEAN5 (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippine, Singapore and Thailand). The factors
identified as influencing the labour productivity of ASEAN-5 are the individual contributions of capital
deepening (intensity), ICT intensity, human capital intensity and the simultaneous contribution of the quality of
these factors. That is expressed as the total factor productivity (TFP) intensity.
The results show that the productivity growth of ASEAN-5 is input-driven. The study also finds that the impact
of ICT and human capital intensities appears to have been reasonable with little contribution of TFP intensity
growth. The results also confirmed that capital intensity had strongly significant role in achieving reasonable
labour productivity contribution that produced by these economies through using huge input to produce output. 

Keywords

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