Informality and poverty in Africa: Which comes first?

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dc.contributor.authorBolarinwa, Segun Thompson
dc.contributor.authorSimatele, Municinga
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-14T11:50:32Z
dc.date.available2025-10-14T11:50:32Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractExisting empirical work has investigated the relationship between informality and poverty. However, most of this work has neglected the feedback effect. This empirical paper explores the bi-directional causality between poverty and informality within the SGMM-PVAR framework among 40 selected high-income and low-income Sub-Saharan countries between 1991 and 2018. Our results support the heterogeneity argument, suggesting that sub-Saharan African informality is demand and supplyled. The income level of the country mediates the direction of effect. Bi-direction causality is observed for low-income countries. Causality in middle-income countries runs from poverty to informality. The results suggest that a certain level of informality may be desirable, especially in low-income countries.
dc.description.sponsorshipGovan Mbeki Research & Development Centre, University of Fort Hare, South Africa for Postdoctoral Funding
dc.identifier.citationBolarinwa, S. T., & Simatele, M. (2023). Informality and poverty in africa: Which comes first? Sustainable Development (Bradford, West Yorkshire, England), 31(3), 1581-1592. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2468
dc.identifier.issn1099-1719
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/3273
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.subjectDevelopment
dc.subjectInformality
dc.subjectPanel Vector Autoregression
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.titleInformality and poverty in Africa: Which comes first?
dc.typeArticle
person.identifier.orcidBolarinwa, Segun Thompson 0000-0002-6024-6569
person.identifier.orcidSimatele, Municinga 0000-0001-9182-2701

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