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Financial development and renewable energy consumption in Nigeria
Dimnwobi, Stephen Kelechi; Madichie, Chekwube V.; … - 2022
Financial sector performance is increasingly linked with the transition to renewable energy in the sustainability discourse of developing economies. This paper examines the nexus and implication (s) of financial development on renewable energy consumption in Nigeria (the largest and most p...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186800
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The financial development-renewable energy consumption nexus in Africa : does governance quality matter?
Dossou, Toyo Amegnonna Marcel; Pascal, Dossou K.; … - 2024
Although the impact of financial development on renewable energy consumption has been extensively examined in recent years, the study regarding the moderation of governance quality on the financial development on renewable energy consumption nexus is sparse. By filling the gap in the energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057637
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Funding the green transition : governance quality, public debt, and renewable energy consumption in sub-Saharan Africa
Onuoha, Favour Chidinma; Dimnwobi, Stephen Kelechi; … - 2023
Prompted by the renewable energy funding challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) amid surging public debt in the region, this study investigates the moderating role of governance quality in the relationship between public debt and REC in the region using the Feasible Generalized Least Squares. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265875
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Sustainability burden or boost? : examining the effect of public debt on renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Onuoha, Favour Chidinma; Dimnwobi, Stephen Kelechi; … - 2023
Given that the development of renewable energy is regarded as a sustainable alternative to the realization of environmental quality, it is not surprising that the discussion of the sustainability of the world's energy sources continues to expand. While renewable energy has a negligible impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280128
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Heterogeneous analysis of pollution abatement via renewable and nonrenewable energy : lessons from investment in G20 nations
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo - 2022
these pollution concerns, particularly among the G20 economies that are top pollution emitters in the world. Unlike other … mediators in energy-pollution nexus, capital investment has been argued to ameliorate or amplify the relationship. To this end …, the study specifically sets out to unravel the mediating role of capital investment in energy-pollution link together with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817754
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The dilemmas of relevance : exploring the role of natural resources and energy consumption in managing climate crisis in Africa
Shobande, Olatunji Abdul; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
The study examines the role of natural resources and energy consumption in managing the climate crisis in Africa, using annual series data from the World Bank from 1980 to 2019. The empirical strategy is based on the second-generation panel techniques that account for cross-sectional dependency...
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Energy consumption, capital investment and environmental degradation : the African experience
Mesagan, Ekundayo P.; Olunkwa, Chidi N. - 2020
This study investigates the effects of energy consumption and capital investment on environmental degradation in selected African countries between 1981 and 2017 using panel cointegration approaches. The Fully Modified and the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares results affirm that energy consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209624
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Comparative Analysis of the Growth Impact of Pollution and Energy Use in Selected West African Nations
Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Osuji, Emeka; Agbonrofo, Hope - 2022
emissions and a unidirectional causality from pollution to energy consumption. For Gambia, economic growth causes CO2 emissions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206571
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Dynamic heterogeneous analysis of pollution reduction in SANEM countries : lessons from the energy-investment interaction
Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Xuan Vinh Vo - 2021
This scientific enquiry examines the role of capital investment in the energy-pollution model in SANEM countries. The … positively impacts CO2pollution in Nigeria, Egypt, and the panel, in the long-run. Again, investment exerts a positive effect on … short-run pollution in the panel, but it reduces long-run pollution. Lastly, the energy-investment interaction reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815578
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Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? : empirical evidence from an agrarian country
Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin; Bekun, Festus Victor - 2019
This study empirically investigates the agriculture-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in an agrarian framework. Annual time series data from 1981−2014 was employed using Augmented Dickey−Fuller and the Phillips−Perron (PP) unit root test complemented by the Zivot and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030517