There has been a long-running debate in Information Technology (IT) and economics literature about the contrary arguments of IT concerning digitalization and the economic growth of nations. While many empirical studies have shown a significant value of IT, others revealed a detrimental impact. Given the ambiguous results and anecdotal commentary on the increase in digitalization attributed to the COVID19 global pandemic, this paper aims to explore the economic growth-digitalization nexus of 59 countries in 7 regions by employing correlation and regression analyses over the period 2018-2020. The findings indicate a positive relationship between economic growth and digitalization for both HIGH and LOW digitalized country categorization and regional assessment. Consistent with regional results, except for Northern Africa and Western Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa regions, the remaining regions show a positive correlation and regression results. The findings of this study can be helpful in future prospective national IT and economic development policies.
翻译:信息技术(IT)和经济学文献就信息技术关于各国数字化和经济增长的相反论点进行了长期辩论,虽然许多经验研究表明信息技术具有重大价值,但其他研究则揭示了不利影响,鉴于由于COVID19全球大流行而导致数字化增加的模糊结果和传闻评论,本文件的目的是利用2018-2020年期间的相互关系和回归分析,探讨7个区域59个国家的经济增长-数字化关系;研究结果表明,高原和LOW数字化国家分类和区域评估的经济增长和数字化之间存在积极关系;根据区域结果,除了北非和西亚以及撒哈拉以南非洲区域以外,其余区域显示出积极的相互关系和回归结果;这一研究结果有助于未来的国家信息技术和经济发展政策。