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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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This study investigates how increasing economic development affects the green economy in terms of CO2 emissions, using data from 44 countries in the SSA for the period 2000-2012. The Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) is used for the empirical analysis. The following main findings are...
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This study examines how information and communication technology (ICT) could be employed to dampen the potentially damaging effects of environmental degradation in order to promote inclusive human development in a panel of 44 Sub-Saharan African countries. ICT is captured with internet and...
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We provide policy-relevant critical masses beyond which, increasing CO2 emissions negatively affects inclusive human development. This study examines how increasing CO2 emissions affects inclusive human development in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical...
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This study examines how information and communication technology (ICT) complements carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to influence inclusive human development in forty-four Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured with internet penetration and mobile phone penetration....
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We provide policy-relevant critical masses beyond which, increasing CO2 emissions negatively affects inclusive human development. This study examines how increasing CO2 emissions affects inclusive human development in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916316
Generally, the revolutionary idea behind using information and communication technology (ICT) has improved potential productivity in many industries, particularly in Africa. ICT is an essential tool in the oil and gas industry and plays a complementary role in technological dynamics and...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of how the frequency and severity of terrorism affectgovernment revenue and … expenditure during the period 1970-2013 using a panel dataset on153 countries. We find that terrorism has only a marginal negative … alternative specifications and empirical strategies. On the other hand, we find strongevidence that terrorism is associated with …
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In spite of the growing consensus of the need to utilise military expenditure to help combat terrorism, our … understanding of the threshold at which military expenditure reduces the effect of terrorism stemming from capital flight remains … terrorism, 5.734 to 7.363 for unclear terrorism and 4.710 to 6.617 for total terrorism. No thresholds are apparent in …
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This study examines the role of globalization on terrorism in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four … terrorism indicators are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism. Political, economic, social and … established from GMM estimations. Political globalisation increases both domestic and transnational terrorism. Social …
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