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emissions in Africa over the period 1980-2014. By employing selected African countries, the current study relies on the Kao and …
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Environmental sustainability and climatic change mitigation seem central in the fight against global warming and continuous human sustenance in the 21st century. However, non-renewable and renewable consumption energies lie at the core of these pollution concerns, particularly among the G20...
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In this era of intensive electricity utilization for economic development, the role of urbanization remains inconclusive, especially in developing economies. Here, this study examined the electricity consumption and economic growth nexus in a trivariate framework by incorporating urbanization as...
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use negatively impacts CO2 emissions in Algeria, South Africa, Morocco, and the panel, in the short-run; however, it … CO2 in South Africa and Algeria, whereas it is negative in Nigeria, Egypt, and Morocco. Capital investment also expands … panel's CO2pollution in the short-run and long-run, as well as, in Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa, except in …
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severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental … crosssectional dependence in Africa; as a result, we employ the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) method and Common Correlated Effect Mean … mediate pollution in Africa via urbanisation and energy consumption channels, and (iv) The interaction of regulatory quality …
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This paper complements existing literature by assessing the conditional relationship between renewable energy and environmental quality in a sample of 40 African countries for the period 2002 to 2017. The empirical evidence is based on fixed effects regressions and quantile fixed effects...
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This study complements existing literature by examining the nexus between energy consumption (EC), CO2 emissions (CE) and economic growth (GDP) in 24 African countries using a panel ARDL approach. The following findings are established. First, there is a long run relationship between EC, CE and...
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FDI to foster inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Also, little has been done to show the IGG gains from improving EE … and FDI in fostering IGG in Africa by using macrodata for 23 countries from 2000 to 2020. According to our findings, which … are based on dynamic GMM estimator, FDI hampers IGG in Africa, while EE fosters IGG. Notably, in the presence of EE, the …
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population-environmental degradation hypothesis for five populous African countries (DR Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa …
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This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control …
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