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Living Standards Comparison in Sub-Saharan Countries. The Baseline for Post-pandemic Analyses

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  • Krzysztof Kompa

    (IPPM CBE University of Johannesburg)

  • Dorota Witkowska

    (IPPM CBE University of Johannesburg
    University of Lodz)

Abstract

Africa is the least successful region of the world in reducing poverty and it is identified as the world's poorest inhabited continent. However, sub-Saharan countries are diverse in terms of socio-economic level of development. There are several global indicators such as Human Development Index (HDI) which cannot properly diversified sub-Saharan (in majority poor) states properly. Therefore, our research aims in the construction of synthetic indicators which may be used to provide ranking of sub-Saharan countries in terms of socio-economic development, and comparison of rankings based on the constructed synthetic measures to HDI. In the research, we distinguished 55 uncorrelated variables describing different life domains: (1) economy, (2) education, (3) environment, (4) health, (5) employment, (6) IT, (7) life condition and infrastructure, (8) public safety and (9) situation of women which are used for the synthetic measure of development construction. All analysed countries were classified into 4 homogenous groups in terms of measures describing selected life domains and standard of living as an aggregated measure.

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  • Krzysztof Kompa & Dorota Witkowska, 2025. "Living Standards Comparison in Sub-Saharan Countries. The Baseline for Post-pandemic Analyses," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-77363-1_26
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77363-1_26
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