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Heterogeneous Assessment of Urbanisation, Energy Consumption and Environmental Pollution in Africa: the Role of Regulatory Quality

Ibekilo, Bruno N.; Ekesiobi, Chukwunonso; Emmanuel, … - 2023

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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The White Man’s Burden: On the Effect of African Resistance to European Domination

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary issue addressed by this inquiry. We establish that African resistance has had adverse effects on post-colonial African development and discuss possible channels of such...

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Industrialisation, Finance, and Urbanisation in Africa

Adeniyi, Oluwatosin A.; Folarin, Oludele - 2023

This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …

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Testing the Relationships between Energy Consumption, CO2 emissions and Economic Growth in 24 African Countries: a Panel ARDL Approach

Asongu, Simplice A.; Montasser, Ghassen El; Toumi, Hassen - 2015

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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Population dynamics and environmental quality in Africa

Dimnwobi, Stephen Kelechi; Ekesiobi, Chukwunonso; … - 2021

population-environmental degradation hypothesis for five populous African countries (DR Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa …

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Fuel subsidies and carbon emission: Evidence from asymmetric modelling

Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Oseni, Isiaq Olasunkanmi - 2021

It is expected that fuel subsidy removal should hinder carbon emissions growth through low energy consumption channels amid higher energy prices. However, outliers in this theoretical disposition make empirical proof of the fuel subsidy-carbon intensity apt and primitive. Despite established...

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Revolution empirics: predicting the Arab Spring

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014

The paper examines whether the Arab Spring phenomenon was predictable by complete elimination in the dispersion of core demands for better governance, more jobs and stable consumer prices. A methodological innovation of the Generalized Methods of Moments is employed to assess the feasibility and...

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The Arab Spring was predictable in 2007: Empirics of proof

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

We model core demands for better governance (political, economic and institutional), more employment and less consumer price inflation using a methodological innovation on the complete elimination of cross-country differences in signals susceptible of sparking social revolts. The empirical...

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Do female parliamentarians improve environmental quality? Cross-country evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2022

This study explores the empowerment of women in politics on the environmental sustainability. Using data for the period 2015-2019 from 179 countries, we investigate the link between representation of women in parliament and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). To explore the causal effect,...

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Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: Evidence from developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Messono, Omand O.; Guttemberg, … - 2021

The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to climate change in 169 countries for the period 1995-2017. The empirical evidence which is based on panel fixed effects regressions shows that: i) the political empowerment of women as...

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