Governance Quality and Sustainable Development: Insights from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Adeyemi Adebayo; Barry Ackers; Olayinka Erin; Alex Adegboye

doi:10.1007/s11115-025-00810-7

Governance Quality and Sustainable Development: Insights from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Adeyemi Adebayo, Barry Ackers, Olayinka Erin, Alex Adegboye

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We examine the effect of governance quality on sustainable development in Africa. We focus on 48 African countries for the period of 2010 to 2022 using the Generalized Method of Moments framework to analyze the data. We measured sustainable development through three key variables: sustainable economic development, sustainable social development and sustainable environmental development. The findings of this study provides a strong evidence that governance quality plays a critical role in promoting sustainable development. Thus, the empirical evidence in this study largely proves a strong and robust link between the governance quality and sustainable development in Africa.

Original language	English
Journal	Public Organization Review
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-025-00810-7
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Africa
Economic sustainability
Environmental sustainability
Governance quality
Sustainable development

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
Law

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