Carbon Emissions, Agricultural Output and Life Expectancy in West Africa

Matthew, Oluwatoyin; Owolabi, Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu; Osabohien, Romanus; Urhie, Ese; Ogunbiyi, Ajibola T.; Olawande, Tomike; Edafe, Oluwatosin D.; Daramola, P.

doi:10.32479/ijeep.9177

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“…On the other hand, [36] obtained a significantly positive impact of CO 2 emissions on life expectancy in West Africa for the data period of 2000-2018 by applying two stages least squares econometric techniques [32]. found an insignificant positive impact of CO 2 emissions on life expectancy in 136 countries covering the period 2002-2010.…”

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The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

Rahman

Alam

2021

BMC Public Health

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for the betterment of health status, while also considering health expenditure, energy, and environmental issues. This paper examines the nexus between health status and health expenditure (both public and private), energy consumption and environmental pollution in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region. Methods We utilized the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the heterogeneous panel causality test, the cross sectional dependence test, the cointegration test and the Pesaran cross sectional dependent (CADF) unit root test for obtaining estimated results from data over 16 years (2002–2017). Results Our results authorize the cointegration among the variables used, where the coefficients of energy consumption, public and private health expenditures, and economic growth are 0.027, 0.014, 0.030, and 0.029, respectively, and indicating positive and statistically significant effects. The coefficient of environmental pollution is − 0.085, implying significant negative effect on the health status of these regions in the long-run. However, no panel wise significant impact is found in the short-run. Bidirectional and unidirectional causal links between the studied variables and the health status are also identified.. Conclusions The improved health status in the SAARC-BIMSTEC region needs to be protected by articulating the effective policies. The attained results are theoretically and empirically consistent, and have important policy implications in the health sector.

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The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

Rahman

Alam

2021

BMC Public Health

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“…On the other hand, carbon emissions, released by the burning of fossil fuels, have brought about negative externalities across the globe. This is due to energy usage, especially fossil fuel alongside manufacturing and construction activities has shown a negative impact on the environment in the form of environmental degradation, poor health outcome, and reduced life expectancy, including aquatic life (Matthew et al, 2020;Balan, 2016;Mesagan and Ekundayo, 2015).…”

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Carbon Emissions and Life Expectancy in Nigeria

Osabohien

Ayomitunde²,

Bose³

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The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model was applied in the study to examine how energy consumption impacts on life expectancy in Nigeria. Data was sourced from the United States (US) Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin, International Energy Agency (IEA), and the World Development Indicators (WDI) for the period 1980-2017. Findings showed that inter alia; carbon emissions are significant and negatively affect life expectancy. This finding implied that, on average, carbon emissions could reduce life expectancy by 0.35%. Based on this finding, the study concludes by recommending that the Nigerian government should embark on the alternative use of energy that emits lesser carbon. Thus, this will help to attain the sustainable development goals of good health and well-being alongside with affordable, reliable and sustainable use of energy for all.

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“…[7], using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model in Ethiopia, find that CO2 emissions negatively affect agricultural productivity and household welfare. Also, [22] find a similar adverse effect of carbon emissions on agricultural output. Further, [23] find higher amounts of rainfall and moderate temperatures to be significant drivers of improved welfare for agricultural workers in northern Ghana based on survey data.…”

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Environmentally sustainable socio-economic welfare and agricultural employment: evidence from ECOWAS

Umehruo

Owolabi

Aderounmu

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Environmental sustainability considerations in socio-economic welfare has been argued in recent welfare literature. With an emphasis on the role of agricultural employment, this present study explores environmentally sustainable socio-economic welfare in ECOWAS, which features countries abundant in agriculture resources, although with low levels of socio-economic welfare and low carbon emissions. The study utilises a balanced panel data set of observations in respect of all fifteen ECOWAS countries over the period of 2010 to 2019. The Human Sustainable Development Index (HSDI) was used to measure environmentally sustainable socio-economic welfare. On the other hand, agricultural employment was measured using the percentage of the employed population earning their livelihoods from agricultural employment. Panel data fixed effects estimation was used to estimate the model for the study, and the findings were that agricultural employment had a significant adverse influence on environmentally sustainable socio-economic welfare as measured by HSDI, while a further comparison of the findings with that of welfare measured using HDI indicated that agricultural employment also adversely affected HDI. The study recommends that socio-economic welfare be assessed from the view point of environmental sustainability, and the governments of ECOWAS member countries provide strong governance including strong laws and policies to ensure that socio-economic welfare that is environmentally sustainable is realised as abundant agricultural resources as well as agricultural employment are well managed.

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Carbon Emissions, Agricultural Output and Life Expectancy in West Africa

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

The nexus between health status and health expenditure, energy consumption and environmental pollution: empirical evidence from SAARC-BIMSTEC regions

Carbon Emissions and Life Expectancy in Nigeria

Environmentally sustainable socio-economic welfare and agricultural employment: evidence from ECOWAS

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