Does convergence contribute to reshaping sustainable development policies? Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

Ulucak, Recep; Kassouri, Yacouba; İlkay, Salih Çağrı; Altıntaş, Halil; Garang, Aweng Peter Majok

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106140

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“…Bulk of the studies examined the "environmental convergence focusing on the ecological footprint (EF) or carbon emissions CO2 or GHGs at the aggregate level" (See, Strazicich and List, 2003;Westerlund and Basher, 2008;Lee and Chang, 2009;Barassi et al, 2011;Acar and Lindmark, 2017;Bilgili and Ulucak 2018;Rios and Gianmoena, 2018;Bilgili et al, 2019;Ulucak and Apergis, 2018;Akram, 2019a, 2019b;Ulucak et al, 2019;Churchill et al 2018Churchill et al , 2020Ivanovski and Churchill, 2020;Ulucak et al, 2020;Apergis and Garzón, 2020;Bhattacharya et al, 2020;Haider, et al 2021;among others). However, the study on the GHGs emissions convergence for the agriculture sector across a large set of countries is limited.…”

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Global Disparities of Greenhouse Gases Emission in Agriculture Sector: Panel Club Convergence Analysis

Akram

Ali

2021

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A lot has been discussed about the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in the existing studies, the study on the club convergence of GHGs emissions is limited particularly for the agriculture sector. This study tries to investigate the convergence hypothesis across 93 countries spanning 1980–2017. To examine the convergence hypothesis, we implement the novel Phillips and Sul test. Results obtained from this test show the evidence of divergence when we consider all 93 countries as a group. This implies that GHGs across the countries are following different convergence paths. To capture this, we further apply clustering algorithms and results show the existence of five clubs of convergence and one group stating the need for altered the polices at the club level to achieve a single steady-state in GHGs emission. Moreover, our findings recommend that the mitigation policies would be considered the presence of different clubs of regions with different convergence paths in terms of GHGs emissions and account for the distributional effect of transfers across countries.

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Global Disparities of Greenhouse Gases Emission in Agriculture Sector: Panel Club Convergence Analysis

Akram

Ali

2021

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“…However, studies focused on countries grouped by institutional structure, income classification, and geographic region lend greater support for convergence in per capita carbon dioxide emissions (see Strazicich and List, 2003;Barassi et al 2008Barassi et al , 2011Barassi et al , 2018Chang, 2008, 2009;Romero-Avila, 2008;Jobert et al 2010;Herrerias, 2012; 3 While we focus our attention on per capita carbon dioxide emissions, a number of studies have investigated other types of emissions. In the case of sulfur dioxide and/or nitrogen oxide emissions, see List (1999), Lee and List (2004), Bulte et al (2007), Payne et al (2014, , Liu et al (2018), and Solarin and Tiwari (2020); greenhouse gas emissions, see El-Montasser et al (2015) and de Oliveira and Bourscheidt (2017); ecological footprint see Biligili and Ulucak (2018), Ulucak and Apergis (2018), Solarin (2019), Ulucak et al (2020), and Yilanci and Pata (2020); and for protected areas in the measurement of environmental quality, see Bimonte (2009). Yavuz and Yilanci, 2013;Solarin, 2014;Robalino-Lopez et al 2016;Presno et al, 2018;Erdogen and Acaravci, 2019;and Karakaya et al 2019).…”

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Convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions among developing countries: evidence from stochastic and club convergence tests

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Apergis

2020

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This exploratory study extends the literature on the convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions in analyzing the stochastic and club convergence within a panel framework for developing countries. The results from Pesaran ( 2007) and Bai and Carrion-i-Silvestre ( 2009) panel unit root tests with allowance for cross-sectional dependence confirm stochastic convergence for low-income, lower-middle income, and combined country panels. Further analysis using the nonlinear time-varying factor model of Phillips and Sul (2007; to test for convergence reveals the emergence of multiple convergence clubs within each of the three country panels examined. We observe geographic proximity among many of the countries within the respective convergence clubs.

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“…Although countries object to being equally responsible for global warming and climate change, research indicates that countries should use the same transitional path in terms of carbon emissions by converging to similar equilibrium points, a necessity in the face of looming environmental catastrophe (Aldy 2006;Westerlund and Basher 2008;Herrerias 2013;Bilgili and Ulucak 2018;Bilgili et al 2019;Ulucak et al 2020a). On the other hand, one of the most important inferences from econometric estimations, on that empirically supports the need for common action in mitigating emissions into the atmosphere, is obtained by an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth (or income level) and environmental degradation (Stern 2017).…”

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Can renewable energy be used as an effective tool in the decarbonization of the Mediterranean region: fresh evidence under cross-sectional dependence

Ulucak

Yücel

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Many studies in the literature confirm the validity of the technique effect, which improves the quality of the environment by investigating whether an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between environmental pollution and economic growth. Ignoring the role of the technological obsolescence effect, which may also exert influence on an economy, these studies reach an optimistic conclusion for growth policies. By controlling renewable energy, this study examines the existence of the obsolescence effect by constructing an N-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation for the most vulnerable countries in the Mediterranean region to climate change. We conducted a battery of cross-sectional dependence tests, secondgeneration panel unit root, and cointegration tests in 17 selected Mediterranean countries covering 1990-2017. The results provide evidence of an N-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation. The study provides important policy recommendations and discusses how renewable energy can be deployed to reduce CO 2 emissions.

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Does convergence contribute to reshaping sustainable development policies? Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 70 publications

References 55 publications

Global Disparities of Greenhouse Gases Emission in Agriculture Sector: Panel Club Convergence Analysis

Global Disparities of Greenhouse Gases Emission in Agriculture Sector: Panel Club Convergence Analysis

Convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions among developing countries: evidence from stochastic and club convergence tests

Can renewable energy be used as an effective tool in the decarbonization of the Mediterranean region: fresh evidence under cross-sectional dependence

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