Working Paper No. 203 E conomic prosperity and public

While GDP per capita offers an objective, country-level measure of the economic outlook in the surveyed countries, individuals’ perceptions provide a subjective way of checking the robustness of the results of the objective measure. [...] Due to the hierarchical structure of the data and the binary nature of the dependent variables, the study employs multilevel logistic regression to estimate the impact of both individual-level and country-level predictors on the dependent variables. [...] Multilevel models consist of both fixed and random effects, where the fixed effects assume that the relationship between the outcome variables and the predictors is consistent for all observations, while the random effects capture between-group variation in the effects of the predictors on the outcome variables (Nganje, 2022; Ohamadike, 2023). [...] Figure 2: Support for transparency of information held by public authorities Taken together, these findings highlight the polarised debate about transparency of public authorities and accountability of government officials and the need to address the concerns and perceptions of citizens who express lower levels of support for political accountability and transparency in Africa. [...] Institute of Peace, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Open Society Foundations - Africa, Luminate, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union Commission, the World Bank Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, the.