The nexus between infrastructure (quantity and quality) and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa

Chakamera, Chengete; Alagidede, Paul

doi:10.1080/02692171.2017.1355356

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“…Loayza and Odawara (2010) also posit that infrastructure in general is an important determinant of economic growth in Egypt. Chakamera and Alagidede (2017) confirm that infrastructure has a positive and significant growth effect in sub-Saharan Africa.…”

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“…The methodology followed the use of the augmented Cobb-Douglas production function. This current study utilized some of the variables identified in Chakamera and Alagidede (2017) to undertake a cointegration in order to establish a relationship between infrastructure development and economic growth. Testing for cointegration between two or more time series data using the ARDL approach began with the running of a stationarity test to determine whether the variables were stationary at level, at first difference or both.…”

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“…A number of studies have examined the impact of infrastructure quality on growth, albeit Chakamera and Alagidede (2017) opine that the number of such studies is incredibly sparse.…”

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The impact of infrastructure development on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa with special focus on Ghana

Owusu‐Manu

Jehuri

Edwards

et al. 2019

JFMPC

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Purpose This paper aims to assess the impact of infrastructure development on Ghana’s economic growth. Design/methodology/approach Using data obtained from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, the United States’ (US) International Energy Statistics and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Factbooks from 1980 to 2016, an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework is used to determine the long- and short-run impact of the selected infrastructure stock and quality indices on Ghana’s economic growth. Findings Findings indicate a statistically significant relationship between infrastructure development and economic growth. Additionally, electricity-generating capacity is identified as the infrastructure stock index that has the greatest positive impact on Ghana’s economic growth. The study reveals that electricity-distribution loss has a significant negative effect over both long- and short-run periods. Research limitations/implications Commercial petroleum export from Ghana since 2010 has been a key contributor to economic growth. Although its aggregate effect is included in the annual GDP figures adopted for the study, the authors would have wished to assess its impact on GDP as an independent standard growth determinant. However, because of a lack of available data over this study period, petroleum exports could not be adopted as an independent standard growth determinant. Additionally, an aggregated index of infrastructure stock and quality could not be derived because of the small size of data available. Hence, this study did not assess its impact on Ghana’s economic growth. Practical implications The research provides pragmatic guidance to policymakers to focus their efforts on expanding electricity-generating capacity while simultaneously taking steps to curb electricity transmission and distribution losses. These two related actions offer the greatest positive impact on infrastructure development and, as a consequence, Ghana’s economic growth. Originality/value This paper represents the first attempt to empirically study the relationship between infrastructure development and Ghana’s economic growth. A key contribution to the existing body of knowledge includes strong evidence of a positive effect of infrastructure development upon Ghana’s economic growth. Results also reveal that the greatest positive impact on economic growth is derived from electricity-generation capacity. However, the study also uncovers a negative, but statistically significant, relationship between road and economic growth.

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Jehuri

Edwards

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“…The improved quality of life of citizens and sustainable productivity in all sectors are dependent on their access to economic resources (Palei, 2015;Azam et al, 2019;Chakamera and Alagidede, 2018;Olagunju et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2019). The availability of these resources however depends on the extent to which governments invest in them (Cigu et al, 2019;Onifade et al, 2020).…”

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“…The availability of these resources however depends on the extent to which governments invest in them (Cigu et al, 2019;Onifade et al, 2020). Globally, economic policies are often made not only to improve the people's access to resources but also to promote their contribution to the growth and development of their nations (Chakamera and Alagidede, 2018;Ogunniyi et al, 2020). Meanwhile, Africa suffers from multidimensional deprivation of access to productivity enhancing resources (Cleeve et al, 2015;Ogundari and Awokuse, 2018).…”

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Has Fiscal Decentralization Influenced the Quality of Life in Sub-Saharan Africa? Empirical Evidence From Nigeria

Rufai

Ogunniyi²,

Salman

et al. 2020

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Sub-Sahara Africa countries has the highest proportion of people with the lowest access to basic amenities required to live well. Nigeria contributes significantly to the low quality of life in the region. Many governments particularly in Africa adopted government decentralization as a major policy reform to improve the distribution of public goods and services. The overall outcome of government decentralization is believed to be more dependent on the extent of fiscal decentralization. This study examined the influence of fiscal decentralization on indicators of health, education, household wealth and living environment.The estimation technique used in this study is based on Vector autoregression (VAR) model.Besides, an impulse response function (orf) function and a Granger causality test was also generated as post-estimation to confirm the results. The results revealed that though the growth in the previous revenue of states and local governments had an inverse relationship with improvements in the indicators. The expenditure of sub national governments had a weak effect but it had an increasing influence on all the indicators except child mortality. The results of the Granger causality test revealed that variations in child mortality rates and access to improved water cannot be explained by both revenue and expenditure of the sub national governments in Nigeria. The quality of life people live can be improved if the issue of financial constraints and accountability at the sub national level of governments is addressed.

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Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?

Tadadjeu

Ningaye

Njangang

2022

J of Intl Development

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This study contributes to the extensive non-consensus literature on the resource curse by examining the effect of natural resource dependence on infrastructure quality. We show that natural resources on average have a negative effect on the overall quality of infrastructure, including the quality of various infrastructures such as roads, ports, railroads, airports and the quality of electricity supply. However, we find that, beyond a certain threshold, natural resources improve the quality of some infrastructure. This study also supports the importance of improving the quality of institutions, as we show that natural resources are a blessing for the infrastructure quality in countries with a better institu tional framework.

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The nexus between infrastructure (quantity and quality) and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa

Cited by 57 publications

References 44 publications

The impact of infrastructure development on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa with special focus on Ghana

The impact of infrastructure development on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa with special focus on Ghana

Has Fiscal Decentralization Influenced the Quality of Life in Sub-Saharan Africa? Empirical Evidence From Nigeria

Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?

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