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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...
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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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across the best and worst corruption-fighting countries especially with respect to democracy, population growth and economic …
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(an) tool(impediment) in(to) the fight against corruption in Low(Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases (decreases …
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seriously in comparison to those that are lax on the issue. (4) Findings on democracy broadly indicate the democratization …
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(an) tool (impediment) in (to) the fight against corruption in Low (Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases …
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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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