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This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample … that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that … sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and …
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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 study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …
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composite governance indicator has a negative effect on CO2 emissions. Moreover, urbanization, economic growth, trade and …
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role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The … test indicates a non-causal effect between FDI inflow and economic expansion in South Africa, which implies that FDI is not … a driver of economic advancement. The empirical study shows a bidirectional causal effect between urbanization and …
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International trade and urbanization are increasing at an unprecedented rate in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The region … study investigates the influence of economic growth, international trade, and urbanization on CO2 emissions in SSA. The … impact on CO2 emissions at the median. Further findings suggest that urbanization increases CO2 emissions across the observed …
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In this era of intensive electricity utilization for economic development, the role of urbanization remains … in a trivariate framework by incorporating urbanization as an additional variable. Using the recent novel Maki …) consumption. A unidirectional causality from urbanization to electricity consumption and economic growth was found but the long …
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The study explores the link between electricity consumption, urbanization and economic growth in Nigeria from 1971 … consumption increases economic growth in both time periods, while the impact of urbanization appears to inhibit growth. The fully … supply, curb rapid urbanization and promote sustainable economic growth were suggested. …
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...
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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …
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