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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to whic h firms' adoption of environmental...
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The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between renewable energy usage and trade performance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), while considering the conditioning role of corruption control, regulatory quality, and the private sector access to finance. Focusing on 42 SSA countries for the...
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Motivated by sustainable development challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, this study assesses the comparative persistence of environmental unsustainability in a sample of 44 countries in the sub-region for the period 2000 to 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. Of...
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African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …
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doubtful as to whether the presumption of the overall efficiency of democracy can be sustained in global governance … reference to strengths and weaknesses in environmental objectives. This analysis explores the effect of autocracy, democracy, as …
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Motivated by the difficulty of ensuring gender equality and the chaotic state of democracy, we analyze the effects of … gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental policy performance. The study uses a panel of 45 African countries … inclusion and democracy positively affect environmental performance in all quantiles. These positive effects tend to be stronger …
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Recently, many studies have examined the ICT-economic growth relationship and the democracy-economic growth linkage … with conflicting results. However, the study on the moderating effect of internet and mobile usage on the democracy … the impact of internet and mobile usage on the democracy-economic growth relationship in 26African economies over the …
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literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the … that tourism and democracy unconditionally worsen income inequality. Moreover, democracy complements tourism to further …
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effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
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In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and … democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance …
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