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Diversity Indices of Technical Capability of 14 African Countries

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Voxi Heinrich Amavilah (REEPS & Glendale College)

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I outline four, and calculate two, broad indices of the diversity of technical capability of 14 African countries based on nine common descriptors of technical capability. I find technical capability to be heterogenous, and conclude that performance policies that ignore technical diversity of capability are potentially misleading, ineffective, and perhaps even damaging.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Development and Comp Systems with number 0502004.

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Keywords: diversity indices; technical capability; diversity technical capability;

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O55 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
O49 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Other
C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Computational Techniques
P52 - Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies

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