Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Name: Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published: 2025-06-28
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Project Citation:

Samuel, David Adebisi. Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E234661V1

Project Description

Summary: This dataset supports the study titled “Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”, which investigates how clean energy access contributes to inclusive growth across 46 Sub-Saharan African countries between 2000 and 2023. The analysis constructs two composite indices: the Inclusive Growth Index (IGI) and the Human Capital Index (HCI). The Inclusive Growth Index is generated using three key normalized indicators: GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$), employment-to-population ratio (percent), and inverted Gini index (1 minus the normalized Gini coefficient)—capturing economic performance, labor market inclusion, and income distribution respectively. The IGI is scaled between 0 and 1, where higher values indicate more inclusive growth. The Human Capital Index comprises normalized values of primary school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, and DPT immunization coverage. It reflects the combined strength of education and health systems across countries and years. Additional variables include clean energy access (access to electricity and clean cooking fuels), FDI inflows, inflation rate, population growth, and trade openness. The panel structure enables cross-country and temporal comparison and is suitable for use in econometric analysis (e.g., panel ARDL, GMM, FMOLS). Researchers can use this dataset for replication, robustness checks, or to expand upon the findings relating to clean energy transitions, inclusive growth, and sustainable development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Funding Sources: None

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa

Time Period(s): 2000 – 2023

Collection Date(s): 5/10/2025 – 5/30/2025

Universe: None

Collection Notes: Inclusive Growth index and Human Capital Index were constructed using Min-Max Normalization and weighting process

Methodology

Response Rate: Secondary data

Sampling: 46 countries and in 24 years

Data Source: Access to clean fuel and technology Foreign Direct Investment Access to Electricity Population growth Trade Openness Inflation were collected from World Bank Development Indicators and Inclusive Growth Index Human Capital Index Energy Access were constructed

Weights: the weight of 0.3 was assigned to the normalized values before aggregation

Unit(s) of Observation: 24

Geographic Unit: 1

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