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5.1 It is not just a matter of policy as institutions matter in diversification efforts: Economic Report on Africa 2007

Written by: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Article Overview: Governance is one of the variables that capture the part that institutions play and it emerges as strongly significant. In fact, in absolute terms, looked at from the regional level, governance has stronger marginal effects compared to other variables in our investigations.

5.1 It is not just a matter of policy as institutions matter in diversification efforts: Economic Report on Africa 2007

Governance is one of the variables that capture the part that institutions play and
it emerges as strongly significant. In fact, in absolute terms, looked at from the
regional level, governance has stronger marginal effects compared to other variables
in our investigations. It is highly probable that good governance enables economies
to deepen diversification. As governance structures improve so does the capacity for
a country to develop a diversified exports base. The interaction of governance and
other variables such as per capita income and investments may drive the diversification
process more than individual effects. Just as openness can interact with per
capita income to determine the turning point in the two stages of diversification, it
is also possible that the interaction of governance and the other variables is critical.

Governance relies to a large extent on the quality of institutions. In the same way
these institutions have been found to be critical to growth, so is their effect in determining
the extent of diversification. It is not surprising that conflict, which is associated
with deterioration in governance, stifles diversification (box 5.1). The relationship
between conflict and diversification, even though weakly significant, indicates
a critical influence on diversification. Intuitively, one would expect the impact of
conflict on diversification to imply that escalation of conflict leads to reduced capacity
to diversify and this is what the continental assessment indicates.

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Article Tags: absolute terms, conflict, critical influence, deterioration, diversification, escalation, extent, good governance, governance structures, institutions, interaction, investigations, investments, marginal effects, openness, per capita income, regional level, relationship, turning point, variables



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