Trade shocks and labour market resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does the franc zone response differently?

Nchofoung, Tii N.

doi:10.1016/j.inteco.2022.01.001

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“…The GMM addresses the potential problem of endogeneity through an instrumentation technique. This problem is addressed by accounting for the concern of reverse causality and time-invariant omitted variables (Nchofoung, 2022 ; Nchofoung & Asongu, 2022 ). The GMM technique is a robust technique that accounts for the error term related problems.…”

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Inclusive Education and Health Performance in Sub Saharan Africa

Kouladoum

2022

Soc Indic Res

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The study assesses the effect of inclusive education on health performance in 48 Sub Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2020. The study adopted the Driscoll/Kraay technique to address cross-sectional dependence and the GMM strategy to address potential endogeneity. The study employed three indicators of health performance which are the total life expectancy, the female life expectancy and the male life expectancy. Three gender parity index of educational enrolments are employed: primary education, secondary and the tertiary education as indicators of inclusive education. The findings of the study reveal that inclusive education enhances the health situation of individuals in Sub Saharan Africa. The findings further show that the health situation of both the male and the female are improved by inclusive education. The study recommends policymakers in this region to invest more in the education and the health sector so as to enhance the health performance of the citizens.

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Inclusive Education and Health Performance in Sub Saharan Africa

Kouladoum

2022

Soc Indic Res

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“…The results are presented in Table 6 below. It is important to note that these are not the structural coefficients (Nchofoung, 2022). However, we use the Cholesky decomposition of the variance-covariance matrix to determine the structural coefficients presented in the next subsection.…”

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Do remittances matter for health outcomes in developing countries? Fresh evidence from a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model

Djeunankan

Tekam

2022

IJDI

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Purpose This study aims to contribute to the growing literature on the effects of remittances and the determinants of health outcomes by analysing for the first time the effect of remittances on health outcomes in developing countries using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model. Design/methodology/approach This study uses panel data from 107 developing countries over the period from 1990 to 2018 to examine the effect of remittances on health outcome in developing countries. Findings The main findings from study is that remittances improve health outcomes in developing countries. Another finding of this study is that income, trade, foreign direct investment and financial devlopment improve health outcome. Originality/value The contribution of this study is fourfold. Firstly, it adopts the PVAR methodology in a Generalized Method of Moments framework proposed by Abrigo and Love (2016). Secondly, it analyses the implications of remittances on health outcomes by relying on two comprehensive measures of health outcomes commonly used in the literature which are life expectancy at birth and the rate of under-five mortality rates. Thirdly, we identify governance and maternal education as the channels through which remittances improve health outcomes in developing countries. Finally, the current paper covers an extensive time span (29 years) and focuses on a large sample (107 countries).

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“…These are the problem of (i) identification (ii) simultaneity and (iii) exclusion restrictions. To resolve these problems, all our explanatory variables are suspected to be endogenous and treated as such in accordance with extant literature on the GMM methodology (Tchamyou, 2020;Tchamyou, 2021;Nchofoung andAsongu, 2022a, 2022b). Besides, given that the period dummies included as explanatory variables in our model are strictly exogenous, these dummies were used as instruments.…”

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“…Equally, resource rent is used in accordance toNchofoung et al (2021) and is expected to present a positive sign following this study. Trade openness is the next control variables and is expected to produce a positive effect with respect toNchofoung (2022). The last but not the least control variable is economic growth and should enhance sustainable development in line with.Tables1 and 2present the summary statistics and the correlation matrix, respectively.…”

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