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Title: | The relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability: evidence from selected Sub-Sahara African countries |
Author: | Aboagye, Solomon |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | Ghanaian journal of economics: a journal of the African Finance and Economics Consult (ISSN 2309-8945) |
Volume: | 2 |
Pages: | 135-153 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | environmental degradation economic development trade restrictions foreign investments industrial development |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC169142 |
Abstract: | Ensuring environmental sustainability amidst the quest to stimulate growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains an issue of great concern. In spite of this, the evidence for SSA is sparse, both at the theoretical and empirical level as literature has not adequately interrogated the effects of economic growth processes on the sustainability of the environment in SSA. Using a panel dataset from 1985-2010 covering 35 Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, this study examines the environmental impact of economic growth and growth-enhancing factors such as trade openness, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and industrialization under the Environmental Kuznet Curve (EKC) framework. The environmental variables employed are CO2 emissions, Adjusted Net Savings (ANS) and energy consumption per capita. Employing the system Generalized Method of Moment, trade openness is found to reduce pollution/degradation through reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption per capita while at the same time reducing environmental sustainability of SSA through reduced ANS. Industrialization is also found to unambiguously harm the environment while rapid urbanization is revealed to increase pollution/degradation through increased CO2 emissions and energy consumption. FDI is the only component found to be accompanied by a fall in pollution/environmental degradation through reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption and a rise in environmental sustainability through increased ANS. Finally, while the Environmental Kuznet Curve (EKC) is confirmed for ANS and energy consumption, it is not established for CO2 emissions. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |