HUMAN SIDE OF E-COMMERCE IN THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 389 - 400, 29.12.2017

Görkem Durak

https://doi.org/10.21733/ibad.2122

Abstract

E-commerce is a new way of shopping through using internet since 1990s.
This latest from of shopping is based on progress in information technologies.
In the 1990s, companies just as Amazon and eBay started to change the shopping
behavior of people. In this research, e-commerce index of 44 Sub-Saharan
African countries are calculated by using World Development Indicators which
are issued by the World Bank Group. The E-commerce index is consisting of
access to electricity, cost of business start-up procedures, fixed broadband
subscriptions, internet users, mobile cellular subscriptions and secure
Internet servers. It is assumed that this combined index shows the readiness of
countries for international e-commerce and they are compared with Human
Development Index (HDI) to identify a correlation between them. The result
shows that there is a moderate positive correlation between e-commerce index
and HDI.

Keywords

E-commerce, Human Development Index, e-commerce index, Sub-Saharan Africa.

References

• P. Schneider, Gary (2015), Electronic Commerce, Connecticut: Cengage Learning.