Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244214 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/21/039
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The objectives of this paper are to verify the linear and the non-linear effects of infrastructural development on inclusive human development in Africa. The results of the system GMM estimations show a positive effect of infrastructural development on inclusive development across all the infrastructural development indexes employed, except the ICT infrastructural composite index which presents an insignificant negative effect. Besides, a non-linear effect of infrastructures on inclusive development was established across all the infrastructure indicators except for the ICT indicator. Negative thresholds for complementary policies are established for the African Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) and the transport index while positive thresholds are apparent for the electricity index and the water and sanitation infrastructure index (WSS). Accordingly, in order to sustain the positive incidence of the AIDI and transport index on human development, complementary policies should be engaged to avoid an overall negative effect on human development when the indexes are respectively, 31.12% and 25.56%. In the same vein, the electricity index and WSSI should exceed critical levels of respectively 49.79% and 41.92%, to engender an overall positive effect on inclusive human development.
Subjects: 
Infrastructure
Inclusive development
Africa
JEL: 
N67
N77
C23
I00
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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