What Typologies of Governance for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) Countries?

Severin TCHIO SEZINE, Paul NINGAYE

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to characterize the typologies of governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in order to engineer policy options with respect to the type of governance. By combining data from global governance indicators on the one hand (WGI, 2017) and the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG, 2015) and on the other hand from development indicators (WDI, 2017), we establish a hierarchical ascending classification (AHC) that reveals four blocks of countries with strong governance similarities for each block: political for block 1, economic for block 2, social for block 3 and mixed for group 4.

Keywords: Governance, typologies, AHC, SSA