Impact of education and security on sustainable development in selected countries in Africa

Abstract

This study investigates how security and education affects sustainable development in Africa. The Panel data of macroeconomic indicators of African countries such as Nigeria, Benin Republic, Niger and Cameron were used to investigate the impact of security and education on sustainable development in Africa for the period of 10 years (2011 – 2021). The study applies pool OLS, fixed effects, and fixed effects techniques are used. The empirical results show that security and education have positive and negative effect on sustainable development in Africa. Gross capital formation has a positive (0.76) and significant at (1%) while government
expenditure on education has a positive (0.11), terrorism has a negative (-0.14) and trade openness has a positive (0.34) and significant at (1%) respectively. The study concludes that, security and education affect sustainable development in Africa. It recommends on the need for the government of African countries to invest more fund in education and security so that they would develop human capital and have conducive environment for macroeconomics activities to strived.