Carbon dioxide emissions from transport and anemia influence on under-five mortality in Benin

Sokadjo, Yves Morel; Atchadé, Mintodê Nicodème; Kossou, Hortense Désirée

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-09800-2

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“…Other country-specific studies include Arceo-Gomez et al [ 21 ] whose study shows that an increase in carbon emission leads to a rise in Mexico’s infant mortality rate despite the evidence of a non-linear nexus. In addition, Sinha et al [ 22 ] find that the relationship between India’s CO 2 emissions and infant mortality is bidirectional while Sokadjo et al [ 23 ] find a positively significant association between CO 2 emissions and under-5 mortality in Benin Republic.…”

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“…This study follows the xtabond2 algorithm designed by Roodman [62]. The BLSDV is the baseline model is used to estimate the full and sub-samples, while the diff-GMM approach is used only on the full sample as they are not feasible for sub-sample regressions due to the small number of observations (Note: The number of countries in each income group: high income (2), low income (22), and middle income (23). Since the time span is 15 years, only the low-and middle-income countries meet the criteria for performing sys-GMM and because this will make a comparative analysis impossible, this approach is dropped.…”

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Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

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This study exclusively contributes to the health-environment discourse by using mortality rates, carbon emissions (proxy for environmental degradation), renewable energy and real per capita income to investigate these intrinsic relationships. This study uses an unbalanced sample of 47 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2005–2019 to reveal that: (1) both carbon emissions and renewable energy are associated with higher mortality rates; (2) real per capita income is associated with reducing mortality rates; (3) per capita income attenuates the effect of renewable energy on mortality rates, (4) persistency in mortalities exist; and (5) the health-environment-energy-income dynamics differ across income groups. Additionally, this study submits that the interaction of renewable energy and real per capita income dampens the positive effect of renewable energy on mortality rates and supports the argument that income levels lessen the extent of mortalities. Besides, these results vividly show that real per capita income reduces the devastating effect of renewable energy on infant and under-5 mortality rates from 0.942% to 0.09%, 2.42% to 0.55%, 1.04% to 0.09% and 2.8% to 0.64% for high and middle-income countries, respectively. This is a novel and significant contribution to the health-environment literature. Hence, real per capita income is a crucial determinant of mortality rate. Policy recommendations are discussed.

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Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Predictive model of under-five mortality in developing countries: evidence from multiple indicators cluster survey Punjab

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Attaining sustainable development in Nigeria: the role of solid waste, urbanization and pollution in reducing under-five mortality

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Onwe,

Ngwuta

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The United Nations, through its subsidiary agency United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has put in such resources to curb infant mortality in pursuit of the Sustainable development goals (SDG). Nevertheless, the issue of under-five mortality is still persistent in so many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, this study investigated the long-term and short-term impacts of solid waste, urbanization, and pollution on under-five mortality, employing the Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and the dynamic Autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) models for the empirical investigations and robustness checks, respectively. The study found that there is significant cointegration between the interest variables. While key findings from the DARDL results revealed that pollution, urbanization, and solid waste have long-term significant positive impacts on under-five mortality in Nigeria, the short-run outcome shows that urbanization and solid waste had a significant positive impact on under-five mortality, while pollution was statistically insignificant. Moreover, lead exposure showed a significant long-term positive and short-term negative impact on under-five mortality in Nigeria. Furthermore, the DARDL simulations show higher long-run shocks and variations as compared to the short run. Thus, CO 2 emissions, urbanization, and solid waste encourage under-five deaths in Nigeria. The study recommends, among other things, the enactment of environmental laws that will curb CO 2 emissions in the country while also strengthening the existing ones, discourage indiscriminate solid waste disposal, and encourage investment in clean technologies and modern healthcare facilities in urban areas of Nigeria.

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Carbon dioxide emissions from transport and anemia influence on under-five mortality in Benin

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mortality rate, carbon emissions, renewable energy and per capita income nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Predictive model of under-five mortality in developing countries: evidence from multiple indicators cluster survey Punjab

Attaining sustainable development in Nigeria: the role of solid waste, urbanization and pollution in reducing under-five mortality

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