Sustainable Development of African Countries: Minding Public Life, Education, and Welfare

Danyang Li; Guosheng He; Hui Jin; Fu-Sheng Tsai

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.748845

Sustainable Development of African Countries: Minding Public Life, Education, and Welfare

Front Public Health. 2021 Nov 11:9:748845. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.748845. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Danyang Li¹, Guosheng He¹, Hui Jin², Fu-Sheng Tsai^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Finance, School of Economics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China.
² Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China.
³ North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Business Administration, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁵ Center for Environmental Toxin and Emerging-Contaminant Research, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ Super Micro Mass Research and Technology Center, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Abstract

Sustainable development (SD) has increasingly played a key background role in government policymaking across the world, especially for the least developed countries in Africa. Therefore, the purpose of our research is to study the SD of African countries in public life, education, and welfare, and then to help policy makers better monitor the status of sustainable development and formulate development policies in these aspects. We firstly propose a new method to assess the SD in public life, education, and welfare. Then we assess the SD status in 51 African countries as well as other countries in the world. After that, we also make a comparison between African countries and the countries in other continents.

Keywords: Africa; education; public life; sustainable development; welfare.

MeSH terms

Africa
Educational Status
Humans
Public Policy
Sustainable Development*