[ Le capital humain et le renforcement de la productivité de l’agriculture en Afrique ]
Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2017, Pages 234–250
Adel KHADIMALLAH1 and Zied AKROUT2
1 Université de SFAX, CODECI, Institut Supérieur d’Administration des Affaires de Sfax, Tunisia
2 Université de SFAX, URECA, Institut Supérieur d’Administration des Affaires de Sfax, Tunisia
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper attempts to determine the best way to maximize the contribution of agriculture to the growth and global modernization of Africa. By using middle-income African countries as a sample, this paper studies the effect of industrialization, human capital, economic opening and institutional quality on the value added by the agricultural sector. The quality of human capital exerts an accelerating effect of the agricultural value added. Indeed, the level of human capital determines the ability to use a technology or innovation capacity. The results require the establishment of appropriate institutional arrangements to overcome the constraints that agricultural products face in market and to turn capital and investment towards agriculture.
Author Keywords: agriculture, industrialization, human capital, data panel, African countries.
Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2017, Pages 234–250
Adel KHADIMALLAH1 and Zied AKROUT2
1 Université de SFAX, CODECI, Institut Supérieur d’Administration des Affaires de Sfax, Tunisia
2 Université de SFAX, URECA, Institut Supérieur d’Administration des Affaires de Sfax, Tunisia
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper attempts to determine the best way to maximize the contribution of agriculture to the growth and global modernization of Africa. By using middle-income African countries as a sample, this paper studies the effect of industrialization, human capital, economic opening and institutional quality on the value added by the agricultural sector. The quality of human capital exerts an accelerating effect of the agricultural value added. Indeed, the level of human capital determines the ability to use a technology or innovation capacity. The results require the establishment of appropriate institutional arrangements to overcome the constraints that agricultural products face in market and to turn capital and investment towards agriculture.
Author Keywords: agriculture, industrialization, human capital, data panel, African countries.
Abstract: (french)
Ce papier tente à déterminer la meilleure façon de maximiser l’apport de l’agriculture à la croissance et à la modernisation globales de l’Afrique. A l’aide d’un échantillon des pays africains à revenu intermédiaires, le papier étudie l’effet de l’industrialisation, le capital humain, l’ouverture économique et la qualité institutionnelle sur la valeur ajoutée créée par le secteur agricole. La qualité du capital humain exerce un effet accélérateur de la valeur ajoutée agricole. En effet, le niveau du capital humain détermine la capacité d'utiliser une technologie ou la capacité d'innovation. Les résultats exigent la mise en place d'arrangements institutionnels appropriés pour surmonter les contraintes auxquelles les produits agricoles se heurtent sur les marchés et orienter le capital et les investissements vers l’agriculture.
Author Keywords: agriculture, industrialisation, capital humain, données de panel, pays africains.
How to Cite this Article
Adel KHADIMALLAH and Zied AKROUT, “Human capital and the enhancing productivity of agriculture in Africa,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 234–250, April 2017.
