Human Development In Africa
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Human Development In Africa A Long Run Perspective
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Author : Leandro Prados de la Escosura
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Human Development In Africa A Long Run Perspective written by Leandro Prados de la Escosura and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Human Development
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Author : Sadig Rasheed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Human Development written by Sadig Rasheed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Africa categories.
Social Media And Inclusive Human Development In Africa
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Author : Simplice Asongu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Social Media And Inclusive Human Development In Africa written by Simplice Asongu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This study investigates the relationship between social media and inclusive human development in 49 African countries for the year 2012. Social media is measured with Facebook penetration whereas inclusive human development is proxied by the inequalityadjusted human development index. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. Ordinary Least Squares provided baseline results, Tobit regressions account for the limited range in the outcome variab le while Quantile regressions are engaged to control for initial levels of inequality-adjusted human development. From Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit results, Facebook penetration is positively associated with inclusive human development. Quantile regres sions confirm this positive nexus and further establish that the positive association is slightly higher in magnitude in the above-median sub-sample. From a comparative assessment, it is apparent that with the exception of the resource-wealth sub-samples, higher levels of Facebook penetration are associated with comparatively higher levels of inclusive human development. Accordingly, the positive association between Facebook penetration and inclusive human development is: (i) a positive function of income levels and (ii) more apparent in Middle East and North African countries (compared to Sub-Saharan African countries), English common law countries (compared to their French civil law counterparts), and coastal countries (in relation to landlocked countries).
Human Development In Africa
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Author : Augustin Fosu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Human Development In Africa written by Augustin Fosu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Human development (HD), a process designed to enhance human lives directly, is contrasted with economic development, which entails the expansion of material things intended to fulfill human needs. Human development empowers people to participate in the improvement of their own well-being. The paper looks at the record of HD in Africa over the period 1970-2005, using half-decadal data derived from United Nations sources and national statistical bureaus. It is found that over the period analyzed, the human development index improved in all African countries except in Zambia, where it declined, due to unfavorable terms of trade and to persistent health and governance problems, among challenges. Nonetheless, despite this progress, African countries continue to lag behind other regions of the world in HD. There has been little advance on the economic development front, where growth plummeted in most African countries, impoverishing nearly 50 percent of the population. Towards the end of the 1990s, however, African economies began to recover due mainly to reforms in governance and distributive systems, and in mechanisms to protect people against downside risks, including disease pandemics, political instabilities, droughts and adverse terms of trade. The paper argues for a continuation of reforms in order to further improve economic and human development outcomes on the continent.
Corruption And Human Development In Africa
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Author : Jacques P. Nguemegne
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-11-09
Corruption And Human Development In Africa written by Jacques P. Nguemegne and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-09 with Social Science categories.
This study is, to the authors knowledge, the fi rst empirical cross-country analysis of the relationship between corruption and human development (HD) in Africa. In most African countries the current state of HD is critically poor. In spite of two decades of democratization and substantial economic growth or stability corruption has become endemic and tends to adversely affect HD conditions and needs. Using a pooledcross- section-across time-design and a sample of 40 African countries over many years (2003 2007) and based on an OLS Analysis, this study attempts an empirical examination of the association between corruption and HD in Africa, while holding constant economic growth, government socioeconomic or welfare expenditures and political system and, controlling for some major internal and external economic variables. As found, corruption adversely affects human development in Africa. Overall, based on the main study model (Model 1) a unit increase in the corruption level (CPI) on a scale of 1 to 10 will cause a .48 percent decrease in the state of HD (HDI).The relationship between corruption and HD is however non-linear: using Model 3 which incorporate a square term of corruption, it was found that at and below 4.577 RCPI (i.e. 5.42 normal CPI) corruptions is likely to positively affect HD whereas at and above 4.577 RCPI corruption rather tends to adversely affect HD with an increasing return. Besides, it was also found, using Model 2 which incorporates an interaction term of corruption and political system, that democratization has deceived scientists theoretical projections and peoples political expectations of the 1990s. Democracy has not improved HD in Africa. Both non-and partly democratic (i.e., authoritarian) and democratic political systems adversely affect HD. The adverse impact of corruption on HD is even worse in the latter systems. After checking for the main effect (Model 2) it appears that, as corruption increases by one unit, HD decreases by 9.48 percent in African countries with authoritarian systems. In contrast , the same one unit increase in corruption will have an additional 5.23 percent decrease in the HD of African countries with a democratic system. This study brings new insights about public policies ineffectiveness and failures to satisfy increasing HD needs in Africa. It throws new lights on the relationship existing between economic growth, democracy and corruption and HD. It suggests some policy reforms which could improve the state of HD in Africa. Overall, it is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical body of administrative theory and knowledge.
An Integrative Rights Based Approach To Human Development In Africa
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Author : Dejo Olowu
language : en
Publisher: PULP
Release Date : 2009
An Integrative Rights Based Approach To Human Development In Africa written by Dejo Olowu and has been published by PULP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Africa south of Sahara categories.
An integrative rights-based approach to human development in Africaby Dejo Olowu2009ISBN: 978-0-9814124-6-7Pages: x 322Print version: AvailableElectronic version: Free PDF available.
Human Development In Cultural Context
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Author : A Bame Nsamenang
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 1992-05-26
Human Development In Cultural Context written by A Bame Nsamenang and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-26 with Psychology categories.
A comprehensive, systematic account of human development which is sensitive to the needs, interests and ecologies of nonwestern cultures and individuals is provided in this unique volume. The importance and value of the sociocultural milieu in shaping the growth and development of children is emphasized, and the author asserts throughout that children do not grow and develop according to the same patterns regardless of culture. The author describes developmental psychology from the perspective of West Africa, demonstrating how the local ecology and the resulting cultural ideology lead to differing ways in which children are conceptualized and socialized, and in turn how they develop. While much of his case material is from
Human Development In Africa
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Author : Augustin kwasi Fosu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Human Development In Africa written by Augustin kwasi Fosu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Economic development projects categories.
Inclusive Human Development In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Simplice Asongu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Inclusive Human Development In Sub Saharan Africa written by Simplice Asongu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This study assesses the role of income levels (low and middle) in modulating governance (political and economic) to influence inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions and forty-nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2002.The following main findings are established. First, low income modulates governance (economic and political) to positively affect inclusive human development exclusively in countries with above-median levels of inclusive human development. It follows that countries with averagely higher levels of inclusive human development are more likely to benefit from the relevance of income levels in influencing governance for inclusive development. Second, the importance of middle income in modulating political governance to positively affect inclusive human is apparent exclusively in the median while the relevance of middle income in moderating economic governance to positively influence inclusive human development is significantly apparent in the 10th and 75th quantiles. Third, regardless of panels, income levels modulate economic governance to affect inclusive human development at a higher magnitude, compared to political governance. Policy implications are discussed in the light of the post-2015 agenda of sustainable development goals and contemporary development paradigms. This study complements the extant sparse literature on the inclusive human development in Africa.
Financial Technology And Human Development In Africa
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Author : Rilwan Sakariyahu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Financial Technology And Human Development In Africa written by Rilwan Sakariyahu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Several studies in the literature have identified the critical role of financial technology (fintech) in improving socio-economic conditions of nations, measured by human development index (HDI). However, despite the efforts to increase HDI using fintech, the ranking of African countries on the index table remains low. Given that access to electricity is imperative for fintech and fundamental to human development, we provide novel evidence by investigating the degree to which the prevailing energy poverty in Africa affects the success of fintech on human development in the continent. Our results show that fintech has a significant positive impact on human development and the impact remains consistent irrespective of the estimation methods employed. However, when we split our sample based on regions and income classification proposed by the World Bank, our results show that the impact of fintech on HDI is more pronounced in the uppermiddle, high-income, Eastern, Central and Southern countries. The Western countries have not significantly benefitted from fintech adoption, perhaps because those countries fall in the low-income categories and have a high prevalence of energy challenge. In the light of the current state of human development in Africa, our study advocates for more investments in energy infrastructure for the rapid realization of the gains of fintech.