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Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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  • Kalu Ojah
  • Odongo Kodongo

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In the light of Africa’s palpable deficit in public infrastructure, we use System GMM to estimate a model of economic growth augmented by an infrastructure variable, for a panel of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries, over the period 2000-2011. We find that it is the spending on infrastructure and increments in the access to infrastructure that […]

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  • Kalu Ojah & Odongo Kodongo, 2016. "Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?," Working Papers 653, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:653
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    Keywords

    economic growth; Infrastructure; Panel data;
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    JEL classification:

    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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