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Environmental quality, infant morality, and economic growth in selected sub-Saharan African countries
Aderounmu, Busayo; Awofiranye, Adedoyin; Oni, Olubusayo … - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 2, pp. 149-162
Beyond the usual macroeconomic stability, which is a necessity for economic growth, more focus should be placed on the effects that environmental quality has on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa has always had the highest rate of infant mortality and the poorest environmental...
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Droughts and gender bias in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Flatø, Martin; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2014 - This version 16th January 2014
Are African girls more exposed than boys to risk of infant mortality during crises and if so, is the difference due to discrimination? To answer these questions, we combine retrospective fertility data on over 1.5 million births from Demographic and Health Surveys with data on rainfall...
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How the new international goal for child mortality is unfair to sub-Saharan Africa (again)
Lange, Simon; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
The post-2015 development includes level-end goals for both under-five and neonatal mortality to be obtained by 2030: no more than 25 and 12 deaths per 1,000 births, respectively. Recent accelerations in the rate of reduction in under-five mortality have been cited as a cause for optimism. In...
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Environmental quality and health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa : a panel econometric approach on the role of forest investment
Oyedele, Ovikuomagbe; Tella, Sheriffdeen A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-14
Beyond the economic support in terms of food, fuelwood, charcoal, wood, and timber supplies that investment towards forest environments provides, its contribution to environmental quality could also provide health benefits. Using data from 16 selected sub-Saharan African countries from 2002 to...
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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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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
globalisation and institution has negative and significant effects on environmental pollution, thus contributing to environmental …
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African growth miracle or statistical tragedy? : interpreting trends in the data over the past two decades
Jerven, Morten - 2014
This paper reviews the current problems of national accounting in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the current uneven application of methods and availability of data, any ranking of countries according to gross domestic product levels is misleading. It is increasingly acknowledged that the problems...
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Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
Arceo-Gomez, Eva; Hanna, Rema; Oliva, Paulina - 2013
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data …. However, given the lower levels of air pollution in developed countries, these estimates may not be externally valid to the … developing country context if there is a nonlinear dose relationship between pollution and mortality or if the costs of avoidance …
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An empirical assessment on the leveraging evidence of economic complexity under environmental kuznets curve hypothesis : a comparative analysis between Nordic and Non-Nordic Europe...
Tchapchet-Tchouto, Jules-Eric - In: Innovation and green development 2 (2023) 4, pp. 1-31
This study empirically investigates the existence or not of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Nordic and Non-Nordic European countries, with carbon dioxide emissions (and ecological footprint for robustness tests) as proxy of environmental quality. The data are spanning from the...
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Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS Burden on Growth in Selected Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Countries : Evidence from a Dynamic System GMM Estimates
Diyoke, Kenneth; Obansa, S A. J; Wafure, Obida Gobna - 2023
This paper applies a two-step dynamic BBS-GMM panel estimation technique alongside with the Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) index variance decomposition approach. This was done to achieve conditional convergence in the growth equation and also to disaggregate the shock due to the epidemic prevalence....
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