Does Rising Resources Income, Consumer Prices, Government Outlay, and Globalisation Hinder Africa's Sustainable Development?

Abstract

This study examined the long-term effect of contemporary challenges such as growing resource income, rising consumer prices, inefficient public spending, and globalisation on Africa's quest for sustainable development. A robust measure of sustainable development that integrates resource productivity is adopted. The study period spanned from 1991 to 2021, and data sourced from 24 African countries. The empirical output for this study is derived using long-term methodologies, including feasible generalised least squares, Driscoll-Kraay, and panel dynamic ordinary least squares. The estimation of the long-term model was to capture the consequential effects of contemporary issues on sustainable development. Evidence from the model revealed that increases in resources income, consumer prices, public outlay, and globalisation are deterrents to sustainable development. The individual cross-sectional regression outputs also demonstrated similar effects. Given these contemporary challenges, the study proposed relevant policy measures to aid the attainment of sustainable development.

Brown vs Green Energy Sources and Resource Productivity: The Role of Human Capital and Technology Transfer in Developing Economies

“…The measure suits well as it demonstrates output efficiency from productive behaviours and natural wealth since it is the ratio between GDP (the output index) and EF (the natural resource utilisation). Apart from the EF serving as an appropriate measure of natural resource consumption, it further defines man's impact on (built-up, arable, grazing, energy, and forest) land and fishing grounds (Aladejare and Musa, 2023). Also, Rees (2000) posited that EF is significantly equivalent to Ehrlich and Holdren's (1971) typical submission of man's environmental effect represented as 𝐼 = 𝑃𝐴𝑇; where 𝐼 denotes impact, 𝑃 shows population, 𝐴 is affluence, and 𝑇 expresses technology.…”