Detecting the Environmental Kuznets Curve in African Countries

Alsayed, Ahmed R. M.; Malik, Abdulrahman

doi:10.1080/10800379.2020.12097355

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“…a certain threshold is crossed, the relationship turns negative and statistically significant albeit this positive effect being minute. The observed support for the traditional EKC is comparable to the previous studies ofKivyiro and Arminen (2014); Osabuohein et al (2014); Al-Mulali and Ozturk (2016); Shahbbaz et al (2016); Inglesi-Lotz and Dogan (2018); Hanif (2018); Sarkodie & Adams (2018); Ssali et al (2019); Beyene and Kotosz (2019); Adedoyin et al (2020); Egbetokun et al (2020); Opoku and Boachie (2020);Alsayed & Malik (2020) for African samples. However, we note that the support for the climate-finance EKC is novel evidence in the empirical literature.…”

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“…Notably, a majority of climate funds geared towards developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change has been spent on CO 2 emission reduction (Buchner et al, 2019). It is therefore not surprising that most prior studies testing the EKC were conducted for CO 2 emissions and most studies conducted for African countries affirmed the existence of EKC (Kivyiro & Arminen, 2014;Osabuohein et al, 2014;Al-Mulali & Ozturk, 2016;Shahbaz et al, 2019;Inglesi-Lotz & Dogan, 2018;Hanif, 2018;Sarkodie and Adams, 2018;Ssali et al, 2019;Beyene & Kotosz, 2019;Adedoyin et al, 2020;Egbetokun et al, 2020;Opoku & Boachie, 2020;Alsayed & Malik, 2020). Only a few studies did not lend their support to the CO 2 -induced EKC in Africa (Shahbaz and Sinha, 2019;Yusuf et al, 2020).…”

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Examining the role of climate finance in the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sub-Sahara African countries

Doku

Ncwadi

Phiri

2021

Cogent Economics & Finance

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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of climate finance on pollutant emissions (CO 2 , CH 4 and N2O) for a sample of 19 Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) countries over the period 2006 to 2017. Our study augments the traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) with climate finance and our findings affirm the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita income and emissions (i.e. traditional EKC) as well as between climate finance and emissions

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Examining the role of climate finance in the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sub-Sahara African countries

Doku

Ncwadi

Phiri

2021

Cogent Economics & Finance

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“…The presence of EKC is very optimistic news for Africa because the environment will be sustainable in future. Past studies [21,34,41,45,46,48,51,75] provide evidence supporting the EKC hypothesis having similar consequences. The Tourist Arrival's coefficients are found to be significantly positive in AMG and MG estimation and positive but insignificant in CCEMG methodology.…”

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“…Additionally, an inverted Ushaped EKC curve was predicted to be evident outside the 10th and 20th quantiles. Alsayed and Malik [46] simulated annual data from 48 African countries from 1960 to 2014 to analyze the EKC for the World Bank's specified income categories for Africa's economic sectors. The researchers used panel data regression and found a positive relationship between CO 2 emissions and GDP in Africa.…”

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Modelling Sustainable Non-Renewable and Renewable Energy Based on the EKC Hypothesis for Africa’s Ten Most Popular Tourist Destinations

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The main purpose of this study was to examine how tourism, GDP, renewable energy, and fossil fuels cause environmental damage. This study examined ten African countries between 1997 and 2021 to test the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) theory. Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Tunisia, Mauritius, Ghana, Uganda, and Nigeria are the ten African countries with the most tourists. In this paper, the augmented mean group (AMG), mean group (MG), and common correlated effects mean group (CCEMG) models were used to deal with slope heterogeneity (SH), cross-sectional dependence (CSD), and a mix of first-differenced and level stationary variables. Though the inverted U-shaped exists, the findings are significant only for MG. The impact of renewable energy is favorable for the environment and significant for the AMG estimator. Inversely, impact of tourist arrivals and fossil fuels are detrimental for environment and significant. Based on the findings for each country, the tourism-based EKC theory only works for Kenya, Egypt, and Tanzania. The research found that using more renewable energy minimizes CO2 emissions more effectively in almost all countries except Morocco and Ghana. Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda’s CO2 emissions increase when more tourists come from other countries. For the sake of both tourism and the environment, the government must reconsider its tourism policies and implement ones that include renewable energy. The findings of this study assist in the transition to clean energy, aiding in sustainable tourism growth. As a result, selected countries should develop a new tourism plan that focuses on renewable energy sources and protects the environment.

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“…(2020) ; Bah et al. (2020) ; Alsayed and Malik (2020) ; Halliru et al. (2020) ; Sisay and Kotosz (2020) ; Teame and Habte (2020) ; Tenaw and Beyene (2021) are some of the EKC studies recently conducted in the African context.…”

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Getting into the details: structural effects of economic growth on environmental pollution in Ethiopia

Tenaw

2021

Heliyon

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Reduced-form approaches are like a ‘ black-box ’ which do not explicitly display the possible channels (exact forces) through which growth may influence the environment. Accordingly, this study aims to provide some empirical evidence regarding the underlying structural effects of growth on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), Methane (CH 4 ), and Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) in Ethiopia over 1975–2017. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is employed and the results confirm that the scale effect of growth increases all types of emissions in both the short run and long run. And, the composition effect has a long-run monotonically increasing relationship with CO 2 emissions and a non-increasing pattern with CH 4 and N 2 O emissions. On the other hand, a generally decreasing (for CO 2 emissions) and an Inverted-U shaped (for CH 4 and N 2 O emissions) technique effects of growth are obtained. This indicates that while growth through its technique effect reduces CO 2 even at a lower level of income, the country needs to achieve a higher income level for the technique effect to be effective in reducing CH 4 and N 2 O emissions. Fossil fuel energy appears to be the main driver of environmental pollution. Furthermore, the Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality test indicates a unidirectional causality from the three structural components of growth to all emissions. The findings, generally, suggest that a self-correcting mechanism in the growth process may not automatically reduce environmental pollution. Quite simply, to achieve environmentally sustainable economic growth, the technique effect should be sufficiently strong to offset the scale effect.

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Detecting the Environmental Kuznets Curve in African Countries

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Examining the role of climate finance in the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sub-Sahara African countries

Examining the role of climate finance in the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sub-Sahara African countries

Modelling Sustainable Non-Renewable and Renewable Energy Based on the EKC Hypothesis for Africa’s Ten Most Popular Tourist Destinations

Getting into the details: structural effects of economic growth on environmental pollution in Ethiopia

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