A Tale of Cyclicality, Aid Flows and Debt: Government Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. D. Lledo ◽  
I. Yackovlev ◽  
L. Gadenne
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Government spending and school enrolment in sub-Saharan Africa: A system GMM approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Isiaq Olasunkanmi Oseni ◽  
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Daniel Akinola Babalola ◽  
Sakiru Oladele Akinbode ◽  
Soliu Bidemi Adegboyega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
School Enrolment ◽  
System Gmm ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Public Governance and Productive Efficiency in Sub–Saharan Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giampaolo Garzarelli ◽  
Yasmina Rim Limam ◽  
Stefania P.S. Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Models ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract Do economic variables operate through the channel of public governance to impact technical (or productive) efficiency in Sub Saharan Africa? We present different stochastic frontier models where technical efficiency is a relation between three economic variables, education, government spending, and trade openness, and three public governance variables, government effectiveness, political stability, and regulatory quality. In all cases, education operates through public governance to improve efficiency while government spending does not.

SUBSTITUTABILITY BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE CONSUMPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
GRACE NKANSA ASANTE ◽  
GIDEON AMANKWAH ◽  
GODWILL BRUCE NYARKOH ◽  
SAMUEL TAWIAH BAIDOO
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Private Consumption ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Sub Saharan

The question of whether private and public consumption are complements or substitutes has been an issue of concern and hence, attracted the attention of researchers and policy think tanks. This study therefore investigates this important phenomenon within the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to inform the design of fiscal policy measures. Using panel data spanning the period 1981–2016 for 21 sub-Saharan African countries, the results indicate that, government and private consumption are substitutes. This indicates that government spending crowds out private consumption in the sub region. Vital policy implications have been provided for consideration based on the findings.

RTS,S/AS01, a vaccine targeting pre-erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 533-537
Author(s):  
Lorenz von Seidlein ◽  
Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn ◽  
Podjanee Jittmala ◽  
Sasithon Pukrittayakamee
Keyword(s):  
Protective Efficacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
European Medicines Agency ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Malaria Epidemiology ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Sub Saharan

RTS,S/AS01 is the most advanced vaccine to prevent malaria. It is safe and moderately effective. A large pivotal phase III trial in over 15 000 young children in sub-Saharan Africa completed in 2014 showed that the vaccine could protect around one-third of children (aged 5–17 months) and one-fourth of infants (aged 6–12 weeks) from uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The European Medicines Agency approved licensing and programmatic roll-out of the RTSS vaccine in malaria endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa. WHO is planning further studies in a large Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme, in more than 400 000 young African children. With the changing malaria epidemiology in Africa resulting in older children at risk, alternative modes of employment are under evaluation, for example the use of RTS,S/AS01 in older children as part of seasonal malaria prophylaxis. Another strategy is combining mass drug administrations with mass vaccine campaigns for all age groups in regional malaria elimination campaigns. A phase II trial is ongoing to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the RTSS in combination with antimalarial drugs in Thailand. Such novel approaches aim to extract the maximum benefit from the well-documented, short-lasting protective efficacy of RTS,S/AS01.

Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-556
Author(s):  
Lado Ruzicka
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

Adolescent Suicidality as Seen in Rural Northeastern Uganda

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Kinyanda ◽  
Ruth Kizza ◽  
Jonathan Levin ◽  
Sheila Ndyanabangi ◽  
Catherine Abbo
Keyword(s):  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Sub Saharan

Background: Suicidal behavior in adolescence is a public health concern and has serious consequences for adolescents and their families. There is, however, a paucity of data on this subject from sub-Saharan Africa, hence the need for this study. Aims: A cross-sectional multistage survey to investigate adolescent suicidality among other things was undertaken in rural northeastern Uganda. Methods: A structured protocol administered by trained psychiatric nurses collected information on sociodemographics, mental disorders (DSM-IV criteria), and psychological and psychosocial risk factors for children aged 3–19 years (N = 1492). For the purposes of this paper, an analysis of a subsample of adolescents (aged 10–19 years; n = 897) was undertaken. Results: Lifetime suicidality in this study was 6.1% (95% CI, 4.6%–7.9%). Conclusions: Factors significantly associated with suicidality included mental disorder, the ecological factor district of residence, factors suggestive of low socioeconomic status, and disadvantaged childhood experiences.

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