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Determinants of Human Development in Sub-sahar Africa

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Human development is a key to the success of social and economic development of a country. It is not only to boost incomes, but also to enhance human choices such human rights, freedoms, capabilities and opportunities and to enable people to lead long, healthy and creative lives. This study examines determinants of human development in Sub-Sahara Africa. The study used panel data of 44 Sub-Saharan Africa countries for the period 1990-2019. The time period was bounded to be in between 1990 and 2019 was due to the availability of consistent and organized data. The study was conducted by using quantitative data from secondary sources. Fixed effect regression model was employed to estimate the determinants of human development in Sub-Sahara Africa countries and descriptive research design was employed. Gross domestic product, inflation, dependency ratio, government expenditure on education and health, institutional quality and foreign aid were explanatory variables used in the study. The study found that human development has been improving in sub-Sahara Africa since 1990 albeit considerable proportion of countries in the region still belong to the low human development category. Moreover, human development varies among countries in the region because of differences in economic, social, and institutional variations among the countries. The results of the fixed effect model revealed that economic growth, government expenditure on education, governance or institutional quality and foreign aid are found to affect human development index positively and significantly. On the other hand dependency ratio associates negatively and significantly with human development. The study recommended that improving economic growth, reducing dependency ratio, enhancing government expenditure on education, improving institutional quality and proper utilization of foreign aid have to be given much more attention so as to improve human development in Sub-Sahara Africa Countries.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:19031
Author: DUTSE TAMIRU
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7082632960
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