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

Krzysztof Kompa () and Dorota Witkowska ()
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Krzysztof Kompa: IPPM CBE University of Johannesburg
Dorota Witkowska: IPPM CBE University of Johannesburg

A chapter in New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business, 2025, pp 395-411 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Socio-economic development; Comparative studies; Sub-Saharan countries; Synthetic measures of development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77363-1_26

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