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Trade and FDI thresholds of CO2 emissions for a green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020

This research focuses on assessing how improving openness influences CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on 49 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2018 divided into: (i) 44 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2012; and (ii) 49 countries for the period 2006- 2018. Openness is measured...

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The role of globalization in modulating the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020

This study assesses how globalisation modulates the effect of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using data for the period 2000 to 2012. The empirical results are based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The following...

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Environmental degradation, ICT and inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2017

. The findings broadly show that ICT can be employed to dampen the potentially negative effect of environmental pollution on …

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Assessment of the influence of institutions and globalization on environmental pollution for open and closed economies

Gyamfi, Bright Akwasi; Agozie, Divine Quase; Ali, … - 2024

As the environmental sustainability effectiveness of various political systems is taken into consideration, it is doubtful as to whether the presumption of the overall efficiency of democracy can be sustained in global governance architecture. The effectiveness of autocracies and democracies...

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Comparative Analysis of the Growth Impact of Pollution and Energy Use in Selected West African Nations

Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Osuji, Emeka; Agbonrofo, Hope - 2022

emissions and a unidirectional causality from pollution to energy consumption. For Gambia, economic growth causes CO2 emissions …

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Assessing the moderating effect of institutional quality on economic growth : carbon emission nexus in Nigeria

Maduka, Anne C.; Ogwu, Stephen Obinozie; Ekesiobi, … - 2022

This study explores the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide and the moderating effect of institutional quality in Nigeria from 1990 to 2020, by employing long run and short run dynamic ARDL regression, quartile regression and granger causality test for the estimation....

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Environmental pollution, economic growth and institutional quality : exploring the nexus in Nigeria

Egbetokun, Samuel; Osabuohien, Evans; Akinbobola, … - 2019

The interaction between environmental pollution and economic growth determines the achievement of the green growth … pollution is effectively dampened by social, political and economic factors as such economy grows. Thus, this study examines the … EKC considering the impact of institutional quality on six variables of environmental pollution [carbon dioxide (CO2 …

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The comparative economics of ICT, environmental degradation and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Pyke, Chris - 2018

This study examines how information and communication technology (ICT) could be employed to dampen the potentially damaging effects of environmental degradation in order to promote inclusive human development in a panel of 44 Sub-Saharan African countries. ICT is captured with internet and...

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The dilemmas of relevance : exploring the role of natural resources and the carbon Kuznets curve hypothesis in managing climate crisis in Africa

Shobande, Olatunji Abdul; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The study examines the role of natural resources and the carbon emission Kuznets curve, (CKC) in managing the climate crisis in Africa, using annual series data from the World, Bank from 1980 to 2019. The empirical strategy is based on the second-generation panel, techniques that account for...

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Towards inclusive green growth in Africa : critical energy efficiency synergies and governance thresholds

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Ojong, Nathanael - 2022

This study contributes to the scholarly literature on the drive towards sustainable development in light of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the African Union's Agenda 2063 by examining pathways through which energy efficiency (EE) promotes inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is...

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