Nexus of Education and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa:

• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: Sheka Bangura Sangho Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회 세미나 논문집』2014년 춘계학술대회 발표집, 1~21쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.05.30

영문 초록

We have discovered education as a lead predictor of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa with evidence from Sierra Leone based on the country’s integrated household survey 2011. Noticeably, education expenditure could have negative direct impact on welfare in the short run even though it delivers long run positive effect through indirect effect of covariates. This explains an inevitability of policy trade-offs with the simultaneous decision making problems a poor household faces, which would sometimes have to reduce health spending in favour of child education. Thus, careful policy is critical to ensuring optimal balance of effects on household welfare decision making problems.

목차

1 Introduction

2 Education and Poverty in Sierra Leone

3 Empirical Model

4 Data and Empirical Results

5 Concluding Remarks

키워드

Education poverty health Sierra Leone Sub-Saharan Africa