Environmental degradation and inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa

By Simplice A. Asongu, Nicholas M. Odhiambo. Sustainable Development, 2018

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In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post-2015 development agenda, this study assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The following findings are established from Fixed Effects and Tobit regressions. First, unconditional effects and conditional impacts are respectively positive and negative from CO2 emissions per capita, CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption and CO2 intensity. This implies a Kuznets shaped curve because of consistent decreasing returns. Second, the corresponding net effects are consistently positive. The following findings are apparent from Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) regressions. First, unconditional effects and conditional impacts are respectively negative and positive from CO2 emissions per capita, CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption and CO2 intensity. This implies a U-shaped curve because of consistent increasing returns. Second, the corresponding net effects are overwhelmingly negative. Based on the robust findings and choice of best estimator, the net effect of increasing CO2 emissions on inclusive human development is negative. Policy implications are discussed.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Inequality and gender economic inclusion: The moderating role of financial access in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “Uduji and Okolo-Obasi (2018a, 2018b, 2019, 2020) and Uduji, Okolo-Obasi and Asongu (2019) argue for corporate social responsibility and the involvement of women in agricultural projects that are technology-driven in rural areas while Efobi et al. (2018) conclude that information and communication…”
Enhancing governance for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, unknown): “This approach to reducing the dimensions of constituent elements in a governance category is consistent with contemporary studies on Africa’s development, notably: Tchamyou (2017) and Asongu and Odhiambo (2019c). The principal component analysis is such that (i) political stability and voice and acc”