Drivers of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy implications for achieving Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melake Tewolde ◽  
Merhawi Weldeyohannes
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Modelling Welfare Transitions to Prioritise Sustainable Development Interventions in Coastal Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6943
Author(s):  
Jacob Katuva ◽  
Rob Hope ◽  
Tim Foster ◽  
Johanna Koehler ◽  
Patrick Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
County Government ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Coastal Kenya ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Government Mandates ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Female Headed Households

Welfare transitions are weakly understood in sub-Saharan Africa due to limited panel data to analyze trajectories of household escaping from, falling into, or remaining out of deprivation. We model data from 3500 households in coastal Kenya in three panels from 2014 to 2016 to evaluate determinants of welfare by multidimensional and subjective measures. Findings indicate that more than half of the households are deprived, with female-headed households being the most vulnerable and making the least progress. The subjective welfare measure identified three times more chronically poor households than the multidimensional metric (27% vs. 9%); in contrast, the multidimensional metric estimated twice as many ‘never poor’ households than the subjective measure (39% vs. 16%). The ‘churning poor’ were broadly consistent for both measures at roughly half the sample. Four welfare priorities converged from modelling welfare transitions. Broadening access to secondary education and energy services, improving the reliability and proximity of drinking water services, and ending open defecation improve welfare outcomes. While the policy implications do not align neatly with Kenya’s national and county government mandates, we argue that prioritising fewer but targeted sustainable development goals may improve accountability, feasibility, and responsibility in delivery if informed by local priorities and political salience.

scholarly journals The Macroeconomic Implications of Climate Change on Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-36
Author(s):  
A. Sandalli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Sub Saharan

While climate change has harsh universal impacts, it is believed that its negative effects fall disproportionately on hotter, developing regions. This paper examines these claims using a panel datasets for 84 OECD and Sub- Saharan African countries between 1970–2018. I document both the evolution of country-specific temperatures and the long-term economic impact of temperature and precipitation variations on GDP per-capita. Using a panel auto-regressive distributed lag model on the sample mentioned above, I found that temperatures have unanimously increased for all sample-countries and that variations in temperature above historical norms significantly reduced income-growth. No significant relationship was found between precipitation and income growth. When interacting ‘poor’ and ‘hot’ country variables, I found that temperature variations disproportionately affected both hotter and poorer Sub-Saharan African countries. In OECD countries, temperatures have increased more quickly relative to their historical norms than Sub-Saharan African countries. Finally, while poorer and developing countries are more adversely affected by temperature variations, they seem to recover more quickly from temperature shocks than sample averages. I explain these results and link them to potential policy implications regarding global sustainable development and greenhouse gas abatement.

scholarly journals Towards the attainment of sustainable development goal 7: what determines clean energy accessibility in sub-Saharan Africa?

Green Finance ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-286
Author(s):  
Paul Adjei Kwakwa ◽  
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Frank Adusah-Poku ◽  
Kwame Adjei-Mantey ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Sub Saharan

<abstract> <p>Access to clean energy is necessary for environmental cleanliness and poverty reduction. That notwithstanding, many in developing countries especially those in sub-Saharan Africa region lack clean energy for their routine domestic activities. This study sought to unravel the factors that influence clean energy accessibility in sub-Saharan Africa region. Clean energy accessibility, specifically access to electricity, and access to clean cooking fuels and technologies, were modeled as a function of income, foreign direct investment, inflation, employment and political regime for a panel of 31 sub-Saharan countries for the period 2000–2015. Regression analysis from fixed effect, random effect and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares show that access to clean energy is influenced positively by income, foreign direct investment, political regime and employment while inflation has some negative effect on its accessibility. The policy implications from the findings among other things include that expansion in GDP per capita in the sub-region shall be helpful in increasing accessibility to clean energy. Moreover, strengthening the democratic institutions of countries in the region shall enhance the citizens' accessibility to clean energy. Ensuring sustainable jobs for the citizens is necessary for access clean energy.</p> </abstract>

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