Nicholas M Odhiambo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 269002 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas M Odhiambo |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas M |
| APELLIDO | Odhiambo |
| FIRMA | ODHIAMBO N M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4988-0259 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Finding explanations for low levels of citizens’ happiness in resource-rich African economies
This study enhances existing research by examining the impact of uncontrolled corruption on citizens’ happiness and life satisfaction in resource-rich economies. It is also the first attempt to investigate how natural resource endowments affect citizens’ life satisfaction in African countries abundant in natural resources. This research utilises a dataset of Africa’s resource-rich economies from 2012 to 2022, focusing on the challenges posed by h…
Pathways to reducing climate change-induced mortality
This study offers new insights into mitigating climate change-induced mortality in emerging economies. It emphasizes the critical roles of health expenditure, environmental regulations, climate technology, and disaster management, which have rarely been explored in prior investigations. On this basis, annual data (1995-2023) from eight emerging countries were analyzed using cutting-edge panel estimators that are robust to cross-sectional nuances.…
Promoting remittances for electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa
Purpose This study aims to examine the moderating role of governance in the relationship between migrant remittances and electricity access. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the system-generalised method of moments (System-GMM) to examine how governance affects the connection between electricity access and migrant remittances in 40 sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2022. Findings First, the analysis shows that migrant remittances h…
The Nexus Between ICT Diffusion, Financial Development, Industrialization and Economic Growth
This study examines the nexus between ICT diffusion, financial development, industrialization, and economic growth using a novel panel VAR approach in the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. Different proxies were used to measure the aforementioned variables, diverging from the commonly used measures in prior literature. Based on panel data covering 45 countries from 2000 to 2018, the empirical results suggest that there is bidirectio…
The role of foreign aid in the nexus between capital flight and unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa
Purpose This study assesses the relevance of foreign aid to the incidence of capital flight and unemployment in 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study is for the period 1996–2018, and the empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions in order to assess the nexuses throughout the conditional distribution of the unemployment outcome variable. Findings From the findings, capital flight has a posit…
A question for sustainable development goal 10
Several variables influence income distributions both for developed and developing countries. Based on the submissions of extant evaluations, policymakers have implemented several policy guidelines to curtail widening income gaps. Unfortunately, the wave of income disparity , particularly in developing countries, remained untamed. Surprisingly, scholars have rarely considered the perspective of innovation patenting receipts (IPRs) in income distr…
Access to electricity and income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
In order to ensure that every individual has access to modern, affordable and dependable energy, countries prioritise reducing income inequality in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. There is currently a dearth of studies on how income disparity connects with access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To contribute to knowledge and policy, this study examines developments in income inequality and electricity access in …
Does economic complexity provide antidotal pathways to evade the resource curse syndrome? A novel role for institutions
This study offers the first empirical attempt to examine the role of institutional quality in influencing the contribution of economic complexity to evading resource curses and reducing resource dependency in resource‐rich countries. We analyze data from 20 resource‐rich African countries covering the years 1995–2021, using fully modified ordinary least squares, a Driscoll–Kraay nonparametric covariance matrix, and the method of moments‐quantile …
Asymmetric Impact of Financial Development on Economic Growth in Mauritius
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of financial development on economic growth in Mauritius during the period 1980–2021. The analyses were carried out using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model in conjunction with additional complementary tests, including the NARDL bounds F -test for cointegration, the Brock-Dechert-Scheinkman (BDS) nonlinearity test, and the Wald test for asymmetries. The findings of the bounds F -test…
Foreign aid and economic growth nexus in Africa
The enormous volume of literature has widely discussed the aid-growth correlation while identification of their causal relationship remains elusive and mixed. The main objective of this article is to investigate whether aid sources matter for explaining the aid-growth causal nexus among African low-income countries (LICs) during 2000-2017. A novel feature of this study is that it takes into account three proxies of aid (i.e. total aid [TA], tradi…
Military expenditure, policy syndromes and tourism in the world
This study assesses the importance of military expenditure in moderating the role of insecurity dynamics on tourist arrivals or international tourism in 163 countries. It is framed to assess how the future of international tourism can be improved when military expenditure is used as a tool to mitigate perceived and real security risks that potentially reduce international tourists’ arrivals. The empirical evidence is based on Negative binomial re…
Health performance and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Purpose The present study investigates the nexus between health performance dynamics and economic growth in 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004–2018. Design/methodology/approach Four health performance dynamics are used, notably: total life expectancy, male life expectancy, female life expectancy and risk of maternal death. The empirical evidence is based on quantile regressions (QRs) in order to put into perspective the condit…
Modelling asymmetric structure in the finance-poverty nexus
The effect of inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in sub‐Saharan Africa
The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub‐Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of poverty is generated as the square of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regre…
Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
The Impact of Public Investment on Private Investment in Botswana
The study examined the crowding in or out effect of public investment on private investment in Botswana from 1980 to 2018 using the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. The findings of the study indicate that infrastructure public investment negatively affects private investment while non-infrastructure public investment has a positive impact on private investment in the short run. The study concluded that infrastructure public…
Financial Development and Economic Growth in Uganda
In this study, we have explored the dynamic causal relationship between financial development and economic growth in Uganda during the period from 1980 to 2015. Although the finance-growth nexus debate has been raging for decades, Uganda, similar to many other low-income sub-Saharan African countries, has not yet received adequate coverage on the subject. To eliminate the variable omission bias associated with some previous studies, two intermitt…
Information technology and sustainability in developing countries
Information technology, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Kenya
In this paper, the casual relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Kenya during the period 1980–2018 is examined. In an attempt to address the omission-of-variable bias, which has been detected in some previous studies, two variables, namely money supply and trade, are used as intermittent variables, thereby leading to a system of multivariate Granger-causality equations. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach, …
The role of mobile characteristics on mobile money innovations
Remittances and value added across economic sub-sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tourism Development and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines the relationship between tourism development, governance, and income inequality in 31 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. In the main, the study aims at examining whether tourism inflows ameliorate or exacerbate income inequality in the studied countries. The study also aims to examine whether institutional governance modulates the impact of tourism development on income inequality. For robustness, four proxies of governance …
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Africa
This article aims to shed some insights into the ongoing debate on the aid-growth nexus by examining whether sources of aid matter in explaining aid effectiveness. In doing so, we consider three main proxies for bilateral aid based on three sources of aid such as Total Aid (TA); Traditional Donors aid (TDA) and Non-Traditional Donors aid (NTDA) as independent variables in a dynamic panel growth model within a system GMM framework. The study uses …
Information Asymmetry and Insurance in Africa
In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and non-life insurance consumption, by using data from 48 African countries during the period 2004–2014. Reduced information asymmetry is proxied by information sharing offices, namely: public credit registries and private credit bureaus. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increas…
How enhancing information and communication technology has affected inequality in Africa for sustainable development
This study examines if enhancing information and communication technology reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the periods 2004–2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio. The adopted information and communication technology indicators include mobile phone penetration, internet penetration, and fixed broadband subscriptions. The empirical evidence is based on the generalise…
Basic formal education quality, information technology, and inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa
This study assesses the role played by basic formal education on the impact of information technology on inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan African countries during the period 2000–2012. The study aims to answer one critical question: What is the relevance of basic formal education in the effect of mobile phone penetration on inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa when initial levels of inclusive human development are taken int…
How enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality
This study investigates how enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality in 42 African countries for the period 2004–2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio. The two gender inclusion measurements used include female labour force participation and female employment. The following main findings are established. Th…
Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal settlements
This paper contributes to the understanding of processes by which small-scale entrepreneurs who provide household waste collection in informal settlements succeed in formalized co-production of such services. The paper draws on the social and solidarity economy and social and environmental entrepreneurship theoretical frameworks, which offer complementary understandings of diverse strategies to tackle everyday challenges. Two questions are addres…
Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Insurance Policy Thresholds for Economic Growth in Africa
Does economic complexity provide antidotal pathways to evade the resource curse syndrome? A novel role for institutions
This study offers the first empirical attempt to examine the role of institutional quality in influencing the contribution of economic complexity to evading resource curses and reducing resource dependency in resource‐rich countries. We analyze data from 20 resource‐rich African countries covering the years 1995–2021, using fully modified ordinary least squares, a Driscoll–Kraay nonparametric covariance matrix, and the method of moments‐quantile …
Remittances, the diffusion of information and industrialisation in Africa
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980–2014. The empirical evidence is based on three simultaneity-robust estimation techniques, namely: (i) Instrumental Fixed Effects (FE) in order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity; (ii) Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) to account for persistence in industrialisation; a…
Does Remittance Inflow Granger-Cause Economic Growth in South Africa? A Dynamic Multivariate Causality Test
In this study, we examine the dynamic causal relationship between remittances and economic growth in South Africa during the period from 1970 to 2017. Although South Africa is well-known for being a source of cross-border remittances to various countries, especially in the African continent, remittance inflows to South Africa have grown in the recent past. The growth in remittances, on one hand, and the need to fight against poverty and inequalit…
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries
The role of globalization in modulating the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development
This study assesses how globalization modulates the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, a trade openness (imports + exports) threshold of between 80 and 120% of GDP is the maximum level required for trade openness to effectively modulate CO2 emissions (metric tonnes per capita) and induce a positive effect on inclusive human development. Second, a minimum threshold requi…
The Impact of Tourism Development on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Access to electricity and income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
In order to ensure that every individual has access to modern, affordable and dependable energy, countries prioritise reducing income inequality in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. There is currently a dearth of studies on how income disparity connects with access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To contribute to knowledge and policy, this study examines developments in income inequality and electricity access in …
Asymmetric Impact of Financial Development on Economic Growth in Mauritius
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of financial development on economic growth in Mauritius during the period 1980–2021. The analyses were carried out using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model in conjunction with additional complementary tests, including the NARDL bounds F -test for cointegration, the Brock-Dechert-Scheinkman (BDS) nonlinearity test, and the Wald test for asymmetries. The findings of the bounds F -test…
The causal relationship between remittance and poverty in South Africa
The main objective of this study is to investigate the causality between international remittance inflows and poverty in South Africa using time series data from 1980 to 2017. The study was motivated by the increasing role of remittances in poverty reduction and human development on the one hand, and the burgeoning inflow of remittances on the other hand. Since 1998, South Africa remittance inflows have shown a more or less upward trend. As an ex…
The role of governance in quality education in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the nexus between governance and education quality in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the 2000-2012 period. Ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation strategies. The following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education quality. Second, with regards to QR, about half of the governance dynamics are n…
Inclusive Development in Environmental Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
This research examines the relevance of inclusive development in modulating the role of governance on environmental degradation. The study focuses on 44 countries in sub‐Saharan Africa for the period 2000–2012. The generalised method of moments is employed as the empirical strategy, and CO 2 emissions per capita is used to measure environmental pollution. Bundled and unbundled governance dynamics are employed, notably political governance (consis…
Insurance and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries during the period 2004-2014. Three inequality variables are used, namely: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. Two insurance premiums are employed, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). Life insurance increases the Gini co…
Environmental degradation and inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa
In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post‐2015 development agenda, this paper assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub‐Saharan Africa for the period 2000–2012. The following findings are established from Fixed Effects and Tobit regressions: first, unconditional effects and conditional impacts are respectively positive and negative from CO 2 emissions…
Macroeconomic Policy Reforms and Economic Performance in Malawi 1960-2013
The paper discusses the role that government policies and macroeconomic reforms have played in influencing economic growth in Malawi during the period 1960-2013. The study identifies a Stateregulated economic system that dominated the Malawian economy, in which economic growth patterns were influenced mainly by activities financed by the State. Two fundamental challenges are identified that have led to a subdued performance of the economy – the c…
Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal settlements
This paper contributes to the understanding of processes by which small-scale entrepreneurs who provide household waste collection in informal settlements succeed in formalized co-production of such services. The paper draws on the social and solidarity economy and social and environmental entrepreneurship theoretical frameworks, which offer complementary understandings of diverse strategies to tackle everyday challenges. Two questions are addres…
CO 2 emissions and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries
This paper examines the causal relationship between CO 2 emissions and economic growth in 10 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This study attempts to answer one critical question: does economic growth Granger-cause CO 2 emissions in SSA countries? Unlike some of the previous studies, this paper uses a dynamic panel data analysis procedure to examine this linkage. The results of the error-correction model (ECM)-based panel causality show that t…
Dynamic impact of fdi inflows on poverty reduction
The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth
This article provides a detailed survey of existing theoretical and empirical literature on the impact of public debt on economic growth in both developing and developed economies. The aim of the article is to add to the existing debate on the relationship between public debt and economic growth in world economies. The survey finds diverse and, in some cases, inconsistent evidence on the relative impact of public debt on economic growth. Although…
Basic formal education quality, information technology, and inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa
This study assesses the role played by basic formal education on the impact of information technology on inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan African countries during the period 2000–2012. The study aims to answer one critical question: What is the relevance of basic formal education in the effect of mobile phone penetration on inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa when initial levels of inclusive human development are taken int…
Environmental degradation and inclusive human development in sub‐Saharan Africa
In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post‐2015 development agenda, this paper assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub‐Saharan Africa for the period 2000–2012. The following findings are established from Fixed Effects and Tobit regressions: first, unconditional effects and conditional impacts are respectively positive and negative from CO 2 emissions…
The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa
This study assesses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. The following findings are established. First, mobile phone and internet each interact with primary school education to decrease in…
Government Size and Economic Growth
In this article, we survey the existing literature on the causal relationship between government size and economic growth, highlighting the theoretical and empirical evidence from topical work. To our knowledge, this study may well be the first study of its kind to survey, in detail, the existing literature on the causal relationship between government size and economic growth—in all the countries, whether developing or developed. By and large, o…
Boosting Quality Education with Inclusive Human Development
This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000–2012. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects (FE), and quantile regression (QR) estimations. It is apparent from the OLS and FE findings that inclusive human development has a negative effect on the outcome variable. This negative effect implies …
Public and private investment and economic growth in Malawi
This paper examines the relative contribution of public and private investment to economic growth in Malawi from 1970 to 2014 – using the recently developed autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bounds testing procedure. The study also examines the crowding-out or crowding-in effect of public investment on private investment. Unlike most previous studies on this subject which are cross-sectional in nature, this study examines the differenti…
Remittances, the diffusion of information and industrialisation in Africa
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980–2014. The empirical evidence is based on three simultaneity-robust estimation techniques, namely: (i) Instrumental Fixed Effects (FE) in order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity; (ii) Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) to account for persistence in industrialisation; a…
FDI and poverty reduction in Botswana
In this study, the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and poverty is investigated using Botswana as a case study, 1980 to 2017, using a trivariate causality framework. The main objective of this study is to establish the direction of causality between FDI and poverty. Three proxies of poverty have been used: 1) household consumption expenditures; 2) infant mortality rate and 3) life expectancy. The study uses the …
Inclusive Development in Environmental Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
This research examines the relevance of inclusive development in modulating the role of governance on environmental degradation. The study focuses on 44 countries in sub‐Saharan Africa for the period 2000–2012. The generalised method of moments is employed as the empirical strategy, and CO 2 emissions per capita is used to measure environmental pollution. Bundled and unbundled governance dynamics are employed, notably political governance (consis…
How enhancing information and communication technology has affected inequality in Africa for sustainable development
This study examines if enhancing information and communication technology reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the periods 2004–2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio. The adopted information and communication technology indicators include mobile phone penetration, internet penetration, and fixed broadband subscriptions. The empirical evidence is based on the generalise…
How enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality
This study investigates how enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality in 42 African countries for the period 2004–2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio. The two gender inclusion measurements used include female labour force participation and female employment. The following main findings are established. Th…
Insurance Policy Thresholds for Economic Growth in Africa
Does Remittance Inflow Granger-Cause Economic Growth in South Africa? A Dynamic Multivariate Causality Test
In this study, we examine the dynamic causal relationship between remittances and economic growth in South Africa during the period from 1970 to 2017. Although South Africa is well-known for being a source of cross-border remittances to various countries, especially in the African continent, remittance inflows to South Africa have grown in the recent past. The growth in remittances, on one hand, and the need to fight against poverty and inequalit…
Insurance and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries during the period 2004-2014. Three inequality variables are used, namely: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. Two insurance premiums are employed, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). Life insurance increases the Gini co…
Foreign direct investment, information technology and economic growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inequality and gender inclusion
Education and economic growth in South Africa
Purpose This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between education and economic growth in South Africa using annual time-series data from 1986 to 2017. The study attempts to answer one critical question: Does education, which is one of the priority sectors in South Africa, drive economic growth? Design/methodology/approach The study uses the ARDL bounds testing approach and ECM-based Granger causality model to examine this linkage. The…
Relative Impact of Domestic and Foreign Public Debt on Economic Growth in South Africa
This paper investigates the debt-growth nexus by testing both the impact of aggregate public debt on economic growth and the relative impact of domestic and foreign public debt on economic growth using South Africa as the case study—from 1970 to 2017. Based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique, the findings reveal that the impact of aggregated public debt on economic growth in South Africa is statistically significant and negati…
Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Tanzania
In this study, the causality between poverty reduction and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Tanzania using time-series data from 1980 to 2014 is investigated. The study attempts to answer one question. Does FDI drive poverty reduction in Tanzania? To answer this question, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-bounds testing approach to cointegration and error correction model (ECM)-based causality model within a trivariate setting was u…
Inequality and Renewable Energy Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economics (56 obras) · Economic Growth and Development (36 obras) · Econometrics (31 obras) · Economic growth (28 obras) · Development economics (25 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (23 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Macroeconomics (19 obras) · Mathematics (18 obras) · Demographic economics (15 obras)