The Comparative Economics of Globalisation and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Simplice Asongu and Nicholas Odhiambo

No 22/050, Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. from African Governance and Development Institute.

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of globalisation on governance in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2019, with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), landlockedness (landlocked versus unlandlocked), resource wealth (oil-rich versus oil-poor) and political stability (stable versus unstable). The empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects in order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity. Political, economic, social, and general globalisation variables are used, while three bundled governance indicators are also employed to assess five main hypotheses. From baseline findings, while all globalization dynamics negatively affect political governance, only political and social globalisation have a negative incidence on economic governance. Social and general globalisation dynamics positively affect institutional governance. The hypotheses that higher income, English common law, unlandlocked, oil poor, and politically-stable countries are associated with higher levels of globalisation-driven governance, are valid, invalid, and partially valid contingent on the globalisation and governance dynamics.

Keywords: Africa; Governance; Globalization; Panel; Fixed Effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 O10 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2022-01
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Forthcoming: Institutions and Economies

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Working Paper: The Comparative Economics of Globalisation and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
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