Assessing Capacity Building and Good Governance Indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications for Poverty Reduction

The aim of this paper was to examine two important factors that serve as the foundation for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: capacity building and good governance. The data showed significant differences in the measures of capacity building and good governance across regions. Differences in gender equality and personal satisfaction with life opportunities were most evident across regions. The data indicated that good governance was an issue throughout Sub-Saharan Africa regardless of region. The data also indicated the existent of several links and non-links between human development characteristics and the level of poverty in the nation. It showed that personal satisfaction with life opportunities or government services had no significant influence on the nation’s level of poverty. The level of education among the nation’s population had the greatest potential for explaining variation in the level of poverty, and the migration and population characteristics were associated with producing change in the level of poverty. The data indicated that gender was important in reducing poverty to the extent that it relates to inequality in education.

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