Africa's statistical tragedy: best statistics, best government effectiveness

Oasis Kodila-Tedika

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Abstract: We analyze the effect of the Statistical Capacity on government effectiveness/efficiency, using a cross-sectional and panel data for a sample of 48 countries African for a period of 2003-2008.The results show that Statistical Capacity positively affects government effectiveness/efficiency. The positive effect of Statistical Capacity is robust to controlling for other determinants of institutional quality and number of estimation techniques.It follows that countries with higher Statistical Capacity levels enjoy institution of better qualitythan countries with low levels of Statistical Capacity.

Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; Institution; Statistical Capacity; Information; Government effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 D73 D8 N17 O15 O17 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-08-15
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