Sustainable development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: the impact of infrastructure on wealth per capita

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to question the extent to which Sub-Saharan African cities are progressing towards promoting pro-poor economies through pro-poor tourism (PPT). It specifically examines how African cities are resilient towards attaining sustainable urban tourism destinations in light of high urbanization. Design/methodology/approach The methodological framework is interpretive in nature and qualitative in an operational form. It uses meta-synthesis to evaluate the causal relationships observed within Sub-Saharan African pro-poor economies to enhance PPT approaches, using Accra, Ghana, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Harare, Zimbabwe, as case studies. Findings Tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been dominantly underpinned by neoliberal development strategies which threaten the sustainability of tourism in African cities. Research limitations/implications The study is limited to three Sub-Saharan African countries. Further studies may need to be done in other developing countries. Practical implications It argues for good governance through sustainability institutionalization which strengthens the regulative mechanisms, processes and organizational culture. Inclusive tourism approaches that are resilient-centered have the potential to promote urban tourism in Sub-Saharan African cities. These findings contribute to the building of strong and inclusive Institutions for Sustainable Development in the Sub-Saharan African cities to alleviate poverty. Social implications These findings contribute to the building of strong and inclusive institutions for sustainable development in the Sub-Saharan African cities to alleviate poverty. Originality/value The “poor” are always within the communities, and it takes a community to minimise the impact of poverty among the populace. The study is conducted at a pertinent time when most African government’s development policies are pro-poor driven. Though African cities provide opportunities of growth, they are regarded as centres of high inequality.

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Political stability as a factor affecting growth in agricultural sub-Saharan African countries

Nierówności społeczne a wzrost gospodarczy ◽

10.15584/nsawg.2020.3.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 160-176

Author(s):

Katarzyna Świerczyńska ◽

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Filip Kaczmarek ◽

Łukasz Kryszak ◽

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Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Agricultural Research ◽

Political Stability ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Gdp Per Capita ◽

Agricultural Activity ◽

Per Capita ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact

The agricultural countries of sub-Saharan Africa remain the least economically advanced region of the world, with the relatively lowest quality of life. The agricultural sector plays a particularly important role in the economies of these countries. However, it is underdeveloped as a result of factors such as inadequate agricultural policy, institutional instability, chronic droughts, epidemics, deterioration of the environment, deteriorating infrastructure and insufficient investment in agricultural research in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the paper is to examine the impact of political stabilization on the economic growth in these countries. We were also inclined to determine what the interdependences were between political stability and factors important for agricultural activity for both agricultural and non-agricultural sub-Saharan counties in the 1995–2017 period. The methods used in this research included panel models with fixed effects, non-parametric tests and quantile regression. It was found that stabilizing the political situation and lowering the level of conflict risk contributed to the growth of GDP per capita in both agricultural and non-agricultural countries. However, in agricultural countries, it also influenced the modernization of agricultural production methods and a shift in the proportion of agricultural production in the total volume of imports and exports. Furthermore, it was found that political stability contributed to a greater extent to the improvement of GDP per capita in the lowest income countries.

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Community forestry frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on sustainable development

Ecology and Society ◽

10.5751/es-10514-230421 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lalisa A. Duguma ◽

Joanes Atela ◽

Alemayehu N. Ayana ◽

Dieudonne Alemagi ◽

Mathew Mpanda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Community Forestry ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact

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Revisiting the Relationship between Poverty and Environmental Sustainability in Sub-Saharan African Countries using Dynamic Econometric Models

Economy ◽

10.20448/journal.502.2021.82.16.25 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 16-25

Author(s):

Owusu Samuel Mensah ◽

Chen Jianlin ◽

Fu Chuambo ◽

Hu Qio

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Econometric Models ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

African Countries ◽

Development Goals ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact

Sustainable development remains an important issue in the quest to achieve a safe and a better world. The expansion of the 8 millennium development goals into the 17 sustainable development goals is a testament of the conscious desire to improve the human environment to ensure better quality of life for its citizens. This study assembles a collection of four sophisticated econometric models to determine the impact of poverty and other variables on two indicators of environmental sustainability. Beside, economic development, the study confirmed the negative impact of poverty on both indicators of sustainable development. The results prove that poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is a threat to environmental quality and its consequential challenges. The call to promote environmentally responsible behaviours should not be focused on developed countries alone. Poverty is also associated with high levels of pollution and poor countries including countries in sub-Saharan Africa contributes must equally restrategise for effective environmental goals. The study further discloses that poverty is one of the strongest factors that affect environmental sustainability. This observation is not a contradiction to the well-established fact that prosperity or economic growth is a major precursor of unsustainable environment. On the contrary the evidence in this paper amplifies a consequence of a social crisis if they fester at both ends. In one breath, whereas economic growth or economic prosperity can compromise the quality of the environment. In conclusion, this result implies that African countries in their pursuit of economic growth, education and effective healthcare to ameliorate poverty must incorporate other aggressive strategies to hasten poverty reduction.

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Evaluating HIV/Aids prevalence and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of health expenditure

African Health Sciences ◽

10.4314/ahs.v20i2.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 568-578 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jamiu Adetola Odugbesan ◽

Husam Rjoub

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Health Expenditure ◽

Economic Behavior ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Correction Coefficient ◽

Long Run ◽

Keywords Hiv ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact ◽

Hiv Aids

Background: The sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) present the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS worldwide; resulting to a signif- icant development challenges at country, region and global level. The previous studies explain at least in part, the impact of the epidemic, however the impact of HIV/AIDS in long-term economic behavior were not yet clear. There is clearly few or absence of studies on the impact of the impact of the epidemic on sustainable development. Objective: This study focused on macroeconomic analysis of the HIV/AIDS impact on sustainable development in SSA. Method: The study utilized a panel dataset covering 23 countries from 1993 until 2016, and employed Panel ARDL/PMG. Results: Our findings reveals a stable long-run relationship between sustainable development and HIV/AIDS prevalence. The error correction coefficient was statistically significant and conclude that HIV/AIDS prevalence has long-run impact on sustainable development. Conclusion: The main implication of our study is that, achieving a sustainable development in the presence of high preva- lence of HIV/AIDS in SSA is very challenging and as such, the responsiveness of HIV/AIDS to sustainable development should be maintained at minimum which would require more efforts on HIV/AIDS control programs and increase health expenditure. Keywords: HIV/AIDS; macroeconomics; sustainable development; health expenditure; SSA.

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Wpływ międzynarodowych instytucji finansowych na sytuację gospodarczą krajów najsłabiej rozwiniętych

Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW w Warszawie - Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego ◽

10.22630/prs.2019.19.3.46 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19(34) (3) ◽

pp. 57-66

Author(s):

Jakub Kraciuk

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

International Financial Institutions ◽

Least Developed Countries ◽

The World Bank ◽

Per Capita ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact ◽

The International Monetary Fund

The aim of the study was to show the impact of the activities of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the economic situation of the least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It was found that the operation of these organizations in accordance with the principles of the Washington consensus did not bring the expected results, and the credit aid of IMF and World Bank increased debt, but did not contribute to a significant GDP growth per capita in the analyzed countries. Therefore, it is necessary to change the rules of operation of international financial institutions towards least developed countries. The proposed adjustment programs are to generate economic growth, which will be subordinated to the needs of societies, and the choice of economic and social policy options should be adapted to the conditions of a given country.

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Eliminating malaria by 2040 among agricultural households in Africa: potential impact on health, labor productivity, education and gender equality

Gates Open Research ◽

10.12688/gatesopenres.12843.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Derek W. Willis ◽

Nick Hamon

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Gender Equality ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Agricultural Households ◽

Development Goals ◽

Malaria Eradication ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

And Gender ◽

The Impact

Background: Ambitious goals have been set to eradicate malaria by the year 2040. Given the high poverty levels and the intense levels of malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, suppressing malaria in rural agricultural communities in these regions will be one of the greatest challenges to achieving malaria eradication. This study has two objectives. The first is to estimate how eradicating malaria by 2040 would affect agricultural households in sub-Saharan Africa. The second is to identify where additional research is needed to develop better estimates of how eradicating malaria by 2040 would affect those households. Methods: Using agricultural census data and malaria morbidity data, we developed estimates of the number of malaria cases in 2018 among agricultural households with fewer than 10 hectares of land for 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. By combining these estimates with additional evidence from the literature, we analyzed how achieving malaria eradication by 2040 would affect indicators related to four Sustainable Development Goals: health, poverty, education and gender equality. Results: Our analysis found that achieving malaria eradication by 2040 would prevent approximately 841 million cases of malaria and thereby decrease the number of lost workdays among agricultural households by approximately 3.2 billion days. Eradicating malaria by 2040 would also increase the number of school days attended by children by 1.5 billion days while also reducing the number of caregiving days provided by women for malaria cases by approximately 1.1 billion days. Conclusions: This article analyzes the impact of eradicating malaria among agricultural households in sub-Saharan Africa using indicators related to four of the Sustainable Development Goals. Enhanced data collection efforts related to these four indicators would facilitate more rigorous estimates of how eradicating malaria would affect these indicators over the next two decades.

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The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Water-Health-Food-Economy Nexus and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

European Journal of Engineering Research and Science ◽

10.24018/ejers.2020.5.11.2228 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (11) ◽

pp. 1383-1388

Author(s):

W. K. Joshua

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Health Sector ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Short Review ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Health Food ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Food Economy ◽

The Impact

The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has raised important concerns regarding sustainable development. With vaccines still on trial and lack of effective treatment, countries must ensure adequate measures are in place to protect and cushion the impact of the virus. In this short review, I examine the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I aim to achieve this by looking at how non-pharmaceutical measures like lockdown, impacts negatively on the water-health-food-economy nexus, and how it affects the realization of the SDGs. The nexus between water, food, health, and economy especially in the context of the pandemic has a strong relationship that will undermine sustainable development. I argue that a large number of people from Sub-Saharan Africa have largely been marginalized economically and socially and that despite having low numbers of positive cases, the region will significantly be impacted due to underlying issues relating to poverty, hunger, poor education and health systems. Although I project to see a relatively improved health sector due to the funds injected into the sector to curtail the pandemic, food-water-economy will drastically impact on sustainable development in the region. There is therefore the need to address the issue by adopting a measure that looks at the nexus between food, water, health, and economy. The root problem underlying the inequity in the health, water food and economic sectors, exposed by the pandemic must be addressed, not just to prepare for another pandemic but to care for people in resource-poor settings in non-pandemic times and ensure sustainable development.

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The Nexus between Education and Economic Growth: Analyzing Empirically a Case of Middle-Income Countries

Virtual Economics ◽

10.34021/ve.2020.03.02(3) ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 43-60

Author(s):

Lamia Jamel ◽

Monia Ben Ltaifa ◽

Ahmed K Elnagar ◽

Abdelkader Derbali ◽

Ali Lamouchi

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Labour Force ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Gdp Per Capita ◽

Middle Income ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

The Pacific ◽

Per Capita ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the nexus between education accumulation and economic growth for a sample of middle-income countries through panel data regressions. The sample consists of 28 middle-income countries from various continents: North Africa and the Middle East (6 countries), sub-Saharan Africa (7 countries), Latin America and the Caribbean (8 countries), East Asia and the Pacific (3 countries), and Europe and Central Asia (4 countries). Education is measured by quantitative (average years of labour force study) and qualitative indicators (student scores on international assessments of educational achievements). To test the impact of education accumulation on GDP per capita growth, a static panel is used during the period of study from 1970 to 2014. A dynamic panel is also being developed to estimate the effect of the education stock on the growth rate of GDP per capita. The results confirm the positive and significant impact of the education quantity and quality on economic growth, both in level and variation. The stock of education and its increase are positively affecting the growth. Moreover, this paper’s original findings suggest that the quality of education is more significant than its quantity.

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Sustainable Development in Developing Countries: Case Studies of Sustainable Consumption and Production in South Africa and India

Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies ◽

10.22610/jebs.v4i9.350 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (9) ◽

pp. 489-496

Author(s):

Ogujiuba Kanayo ◽

Fadila Jumare .

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Energy Production ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Development Policies ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Impact

The pursuit of development has had a major impact on the environment and on existing social structures. During the 1950s and 1960s, most nations were preoccupied with economic growth and energy consumption, which led to social and environmental issues being overlooked. Thus, traditional societies have been devastated and extreme environmental damage occurring such as pollution and inadequate water supply, transportation and sewer infrastructure problems amongst others. If environmental damage remains unchecked, the achievements of development and even essential ecosystems would be undermined. This paper reviewed the link between growth trends and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thereafter, the impact of environmental degradation was discussed including strategies for sustainable energy production and consumption. These were based on evidence from South Africa and India and provided the benchmark for discussing ways in which energy production and consumption can take place sustainably. The paper notes that in developing and implementing strategies, emerging countries do not necessarily have to be western in their sustainable development policies. Rather, each country has to have sustainable development policies that are peculiar to its own circumstance. The paper recommends community participation and accountability of institutions as necessary for ensuring that social development is integrated into the economic and environmental elements of sustainable development.

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