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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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Environmental degradation and inclusive human development in Sub -Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post-2015 development agenda, this study assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The following findings are established...

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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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Searching for sustainable footprints : does ICT increase CO2 emissions?

Shobande, Olatunji Abdul; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

Generally, the revolutionary idea behind using information and communication technology (ICT) has improved potential productivity in many industries, particularly in Africa. ICT is an essential tool in the oil and gas industry and plays a complementary role in technological dynamics and...

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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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Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa : evidence from governance synergy

Traoré, Awa; Ndour, Cheikh T.; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

The present study complements the extant literature by assessing how environmental sustainability can be promoted by means of policies that entail the simultaneous implementation of six governance dynamics, notably, political governance (political stability/ no violence and 'voice &...

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New insight into the causal linkage between economic expansion, FDI, coal consumption, pollutant emissions and urbanization in South Africa

Joshua, Udi; Bekun, Festus Victor; Sarkodie, Samuel A. - 2020

This study examines the relationship between foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth by incorporating the role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The different order of integration from the unit root test...

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Dynamic heterogeneous analysis of pollution reduction in SANEM countries : lessons from the energy-investment interaction

Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Xuan Vinh Vo - 2021

This scientific enquiry examines the role of capital investment in the energy-pollution model in SANEM countries. The … positively impacts CO2pollution in Nigeria, Egypt, and the panel, in the long-run. Again, investment exerts a positive effect on … short-run pollution in the panel, but it reduces long-run pollution. Lastly, the energy-investment interaction reduces the …

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Heterogeneous analysis of pollution abatement via renewable and nonrenewable energy : lessons from investment in G20 nations

Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo - 2022

these pollution concerns, particularly among the G20 economies that are top pollution emitters in the world. Unlike other … mediators in energy-pollution nexus, capital investment has been argued to ameliorate or amplify the relationship. To this end …, the study specifically sets out to unravel the mediating role of capital investment in energy-pollution link together with …

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