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The criticality of growth, urbanization, electricity and fossil fuel consumption to environment sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin; Alola, … - 2019

-run regression results. Bi-directional causality is observed between pollutant emissions, electricity consumption, economic growth … growth, urbanization, electricity consumption, fossil fuel energy consumption, and total natural resources rent on pollutant … methodology (ARDL-PMG) for long run regression while Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) is employed for the detection of causality …

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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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The comparative inclusive human development of globalisation in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...

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Mobile phones in the diffusion of knowledge and persistence in inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models...

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Mobile phone innovation and inclusive human development : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Boateng, Agyenim; Akamavi, Raphael - 2016

A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as more than 45% of countries in the sub-region are off-track from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. This paper...

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Thresholds of external flows for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

This research investigates the incidence of enhancing external flows on inclusive human development in a panel of 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It complements the literature by examining the relevance of enhancing three types of external flows, namely: development assistance, foreign...

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Foreign aid complementarities and inclusive human development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study complements existing literature by assessing how various types of foreign aid complement each other in boosting inclusive human development in Africa. (a) When 'aid to social infrastructure' is moderated with other aid types, 'action on debts' is substitutive whereas 'aid to the...

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Boosting quality education with inclusive human development : empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty-nine Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effects (FE) and Quantile Regression (QR)...

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Governance, CO2 emissions and Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study investigates the relevance of government quality in moderating the incidence of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Environmental degradation is measured with CO2 emissions and the governance dynamics...

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Doing business and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

Purpose - This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach - The measurement of inclusive human development encompasses both absolute pro-poor and relative pro-poor concepts of inclusive...

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