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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 what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these questions, data from thirty-three (33) African countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416025
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New insight into the causal linkage between economic expansion, FDI, coal consumption, pollutant emissions and urbanization in South Africa
Joshua, Udi; Bekun, Festus Victor; Sarkodie, Samuel A. - 2020
role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The … a driver of economic advancement. The empirical study shows a bidirectional causal effect between urbanization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171566
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Equitable and sustainable development of foreign land acquisitions : lessons, policies and implications
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nguena, Christian Lambert - 2014
Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409111
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Equitable and sustainable development of foreign land acquisitions : what have we learnt on policy syndromes and implications?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nguena, Christian Lambert - 2014
Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409817
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Does economic growth, international trade and urbanization uphold environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa? : insights from quantile and causality procedures
Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Anyanwu, Ogochukwu C.; Odo, … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416517
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Trivariate modelling of the nexus between electricity consumption, urbanization and economic growth in Nigeria : fresh insights from Maki cointegration and causality tests
Hamisu Sadi Ali; Nathaniel, Solomon P.; Uzuner, Gizem; … - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171561
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Electricity consumption, urbanization and economic growth in Nigeria : new insights from combined cointegration amidst structural breaks
Nathaniel, Solomon P.; Bekun, Festus Victor - 2020
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171580
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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa : accounting for digitalization and institutional quality
Yeyouomo, Aurelien Kamden; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335581
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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
The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339299
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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408920