- Title
- The impact of poverty alleviation on sustainable development in South Africa and Uganda
- Creator
- Ngonde, Nicholas
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- South Africa
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- Uganda Economic development -- South Africa Economic development -- Uganda South Africa -- Economic conditions Uganda -- Economic conditions Poverty -- South Africa Poverty -- Uganda
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCom
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33419
- Identifier
- vital:32852
- Description
- The success of a nation is often determined by economic growth which, however, cannot reduce poverty, create jobs and enhance the general standards of living on its own. Therefore, policy makers should focus on policies that are more inclusive and promote sustainable development. Currently, poverty is the greatest threat to the achievement of sustainable development in most regions of the world. This study thus sought to investigate the impact of poverty alleviation on sustainable development in South Africa and Uganda. An Autoregressive Distributed Lags model (ARDL) was used in order to achieve the aim of this study. The variables analysed in this study were: The Human Sustainable Development Index as an indicator of sustainable development, gross national income per capita as an indicator of poverty, as well as life expectancy, expected years of schooling and carbon dioxide emissions (metric tons per capita) for the period during 1990 and 2014. The empirical findings in this study revealed that all the variables share a long run relationship in both countries. These results also showed that, in the long run, a reduction in poverty and an increase in the expected years of schooling had a significant positive impact on sustainable development, while an increase in the carbon dioxide emissions had a negative effect on sustainable development within South Africa. On the other hand, a reduction in poverty and an increase in the expected years of schooling had a positive effect on sustainable development in Uganda in the long run, unlike carbon dioxide emissions that had no effect. Since a cointegrating relationship was found to exist between the variables, an Error Correction Model (ECM) was estimated. The ECM results revealed that, for South Africa, poverty alleviation had no impact on sustainable development in the short run, unlike expected years of schooling and carbon dioxide emissions that had a positive and negative impact, respectively. In Uganda however, poverty alleviation and expected years of schooling had a positive impact on sustainable development unlike carbon dioxide emissions that had no impact. This study thus revealed that poverty alleviation positively influences the level of sustainable development. However, achieving sustainable development does not solely rely on reducing poverty, but requires policy makers to design strategies that are inclusive and encompass the different aspects of sustainable development.
- Format
- xiv, 178 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economics Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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