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African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no "one way" recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …
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hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission … growth. …
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I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …
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growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality … decreasing energy consumption decreases growth and vice versa, and that increasing energy consumption increases growth, and vice …
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West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a …
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This review synthesizes economics-oriented research in environmental justice with a focus on the last decade. We first categorize this literature into broad areas of inquiry and review main findings. Then, we review recent advances in data and methodologies that have allowed for new study...
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Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are highly polluted. Using administrative data on the universe of births and deaths, we explore birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate...
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We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
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While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green technologies. This papier investigates whether the financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon...
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West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077189