Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1241:
Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?
Erich Gundlach and Susanne Hartmann
Abstract: We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries
are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as
suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical
results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA
countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their
geographic and economic constraints, we conclude that SSA countries are on
average not governed worse than other comparable countries. Our finding
supports the basic argument of a recent UN report (UN Millennium Project
2005). However, we find that the UN report is based on empirical evidence
that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions.
Keywords: Development, institutions, disease ecology, Sub-Saharan Africa; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: O1,; O4; (follow links to similar papers)
42 pages, April 2005
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