Abdulfatai A AdedejiCentre for the Study of the Economies of Africa
Abdulfatai A Adedeji
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Education
July 2014 - March 2016
August 2008 - November 2012
Publications
Publications (20)
This paper examined the potential effects of the global Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic on the paths of international trade, industrial development and economic globalization on the African continent. Deploying a purely descriptive analytical approach, a number of submissions are made. One, the pandemic significantly disrupted African trade -on bo...
The impact of human capital on inclusive growth manifests in several forms. An improvement in human capital can directly influence inclusive growth and indirectly through innovation. Also, human capital serves as a key driver of innovation and knowledge diffusion hence, enhancing labour capacity will facilitate new ideas and technological adoption....
In this study, we employ a recently developed Fractional Cointegrating Vector Autoregressive (FCVAR) model to analyze the relationship between gold price and inflation rate, to determine the responsiveness of inflation rate persistence of the selected countries to gold price shocks. Our analyses cover two decades; ranging from January 2001 to Decem...
The challenge of capital flight in the ECOWAS sub-region is worrisome. Huge revenue from natural resources also contributes to the relocation of available resources necessary for the development of the region. The study identifies the revenue from natural resources as a key driver of capital flight in the region. Hence, this study analyzed the effe...
Forthcoming AERC Project
This study will carry out a comprehensive and analytical exploration of the relationship
between conflict/political instability and economic growth using selected African countries. One key indicator to be explored is investment (both domestic and foreign) which is important to economic growth. As established in the literature, investment plays a p...
This paper examines whether technology and energy have a role to play in agriculture value addition in nine sub-Saharan African countries for a sample period between 1981 and 2015. We employ the Autoregressive Distributed Lag modelling technique to examine the relationship among the variables. Models with technology, energy use, and a combination o...
This study examines the critical role of tax structure in the human capital‐inclusive growth nexus. We deploy the fixed effects model to investigate this relationship in 26 sub‐Saharan African countries between 1995 and 2014. The study explores aggregate and disaggregated taxes as well as per capita public expenditures on education and health. Our...
This study investigates the effect of oil price shocks on the inflation persistence of the top ten (10) oil-exporting and oil-importing countries. The study employs the recently developed fractional cointegration vector autoregressive (FCVAR) approach. It accounts for the role of monetary policy framework and exchange rate regime. It also tests and...
This study investigates the nexus between domestic resource mobilization using aggregated and disaggregated taxes, and human capital accumulation as measured by the index of human capital and total factor productivity. The study explores panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag. We further explore the linear and nonlinear effects of taxes on human capi...
Purpose
Many West African countries face the challenge of growth inclusiveness. The region is also facing challenges of equipping its teeming population with high-quality skills despite many reforms and initiatives introduced in the past. This study, thus, identifies education as a crucial contributory factor to growth inclusiveness in the region....
External debt has been identified as a key source of finance for many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to inadequate funds from other sources. Many countries relied on external debt to finance their investment with the expectation of spurring economic growth. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of external debt and investment on...
This paper investigates whether the natural resource rent has a role to play in the human capital-industrial development nexus. The study specifically examines how human capital development in sub-Saharan Africa can spur industrial development and probing how natural resource rent serves as a propeller in this process for a sample of 17 sub-Saharan...
This study examined the role of a regional body in the nexus between financial sector development and economic growth with special reference to West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) member states over the period 1985 to 2014. The overall results of panel unit root tests showed that only three variables (government final consumption expen...
This study investigates the role of governance in the resource mobilization-inclusive growth relationship. We explore the difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation technique to examine this relationship in 27 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1995–2015. This study uses aggregate tax and disaggregated taxes to capture dome...
This study assesses whether natural resource rents can enhance the
positive association between human capital and industrial
development using a sample of 14 sub-Saharan African (SSA)
countries over the period 1995 to 2015. The dynamic approach was
adopted through the use of the system generalized method of moments.
The empirical findings reveal th...
This paper examines the role of financial development in the human capital-growth relationship. The core activity of this study involves the use of different measures of human capital (school enrolment and total factor productivity) in the examination of its impact on inclusive growth and interrogating how financial sector serves as catalyst in thi...
Projects
Projects (3)
This project investigates the effect of imposing user fee on health care accessibility and hospital waiting in Nigeria.
This paper empirically investigated the fragility-growth nexus, as well as the fragility poverty nexus, in a sample of 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Nigeria. We further considered the macroeconomic and socio-political relationship in fragile and non-fragile states of Nigeria. Using data covering the period between 2011 and 2015, both the static approach (Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effect, and Random Effect) and dynamic approach (Difference and System Generalized Method of Moments) were explored to provide answers to some key questions in the study. The results showed that neoclassical approach and socio-political approach complement each other. We further observed that, economic growth and poverty need urgent attention in both fragile and non-fragile states, but special attention should be directed towards fragile states to move them above fragility trap for them to be more resilient. There is still high-level poverty coupled with declined growth in both regions.
