Human capital formation and the role of institutions in Africa

What effect the quality of institution has on human capital formation in Africa? This question states the main issue of this paper. To this end, the data used concern 33 countries and cover the period from 1996 to 2020. To address this preoccupation, two mains approaches have been explored. In the first one, we make use of an exploratory study which allowed us to outline the existing literature. In the second, through the generalized method of moments in system and the two stage least squares, we did analyses. Two main results emerged. Firstly, government efficiency is a lever for education access at both secondary and tertiary levels. Secondly, all institutional indicators are a spur to population health. Those results, presented as the main contribution of this article, have conducted to a main suggestion: institutions are one of the main aggregates to consider in human capital formation (in his two components named education and health) policies.