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Evaluating environmental sustainability in Africa : the role of environmental taxes, productive capacities, and urbanization dynamics

BenYoussef, Adel; Dahmani, Mounir - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 4, pp. 1-24

collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates …

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Economic growth and emissions : testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries

Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56

The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...

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Assessing the role of foreign direct investment in environmental sustainability : a spatial semiparametric panel approach

Xie, Qichang; Yan, Yingkun; Wang, Xu - In: Economic change & restructuring 56 (2023) 2, pp. 1263-1295

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Citizens' intent and behavior towards recycling in the municipality of Kavala

Kechagias, Paraskevas; Dimitriadis, Efstathios - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 12 (2019) 3, pp. 62-72

Purpose: This study examines the factors that tend to affect citizens intent and behavior towards recycling. There are several key factors that can influence this behavior, such as Individual perception and behavior towards recycling as well as the spatial planning of recycling bins and the...

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Economic globalisation, institutions and environmental quality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yameogo, Claire E. W.; Omojolaibi, Joseph Ayoola; … - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-9

institutions as the determinant of this relationship for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study deploys the technique of generalised … globalisation and institution has negative and significant effects on environmental pollution, thus contributing to environmental …

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Heterogeneity in air pollution levels and their techno‑economic determinants : a cluster analysis of the EU-27

Doryń, Wirginia; Wawrzyniak, Dorota - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 27 (2024) 3, pp. 47-66

purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities among the EU-27 countries regarding air pollution …, innovation and institutional quality factors. The analysis covers nine indicators that reflect pollution emissions and fifteen … variables that illustrate air pollution drivers. Cluster analysis of the data averaged for the period 2015-2020 was used to …

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A new look at the pollution halo hypothesis : the role of environmental policy stringency

Akbulut, Hale; Yereli, Ahmet Burçin - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54

The effect of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, the indirect effects of environmental policies in the process were not sufficiently considered. This study uses a panel threshold methodology to...

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The role of cities in protecting environmental quality

Nižić, Marinela Krstinić; Baresa, Suzana - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 3, pp. 325-339

positively and negatively. Therefore, the basic aim of this paper is demonstrating that cities can resist pollution and improve …

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Environmental regulations and firm-level FDI : evidence from China's 11th 5-year plan

Tan, Yong; Shi, Qing; Xuan, Siyuan; Yang, Guang - In: International studies of economics 18 (2023) 1, pp. 21-52

, which imposed different pollution reduction targets across provinces, and examine its impact on firm-level FDI activities … policy endogeneity, missing variables, and expectation effect issues, which provides positive support for the pollution haven …

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Does green finance really deliver what is expected? : an empirical perspective

Khan, Muhammad Asif; Riaz, Hammad; Ahmed, Masood; … - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 3, pp. 586-593

Coupled with adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) role may not be overlooked. The ADB took substantial measures to ensure environmentally sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific. They include climate change...

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