Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227992 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/014
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Sustainable development
Income levels
Governance
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
D31
I10
I32
K40
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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