Governance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M.

doi:10.1108/ijesm-10-2020-0009

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“…The current paper explores the effects of economic growth and governance indicators on different renewable and nonrenewable energy sources in South Asia. For this purpose, we follow Asongu and Odhiambo's [42] model, which tested the effect of growth proxies, the rule of law, political stability, corruption control, and voice and accountability on REC. Moreover, we extend the scope of the model investigating both renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption, including regulatory quality and government effectiveness in addition to the proxies used by [42].…”

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“…In this regard, the rule of law, corruption control, political stability, voice and accountability, regulatory quality, and government effectiveness are fundamental aspects of the governance at the country level to investigate. One major limitation of past studies is that they only focus on a few political variables [15,16,42] and do not put the rest of the political structure of their sample countries in the context for a holistic view, which is essential to take into account in order to make well thought out energy policies and recommendations. This current study attempts to fill that gap as it includes maximum governance indicators in the model to investigate the matter in more depth to inform energy policymaking in a better way.…”

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Rule of Law, Corruption Control, Governance, and Economic Growth in Managing Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Consumption in South Asia

Mahmood

Tanveer

Furqan

2021

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Strong governance is vital for developing environmental policies to promote renewable energy consumption and discourage nonrenewable energy sources. The present research explores the effect of economic growth and different governance indicators on renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka using data from 1996 to 2019. For this purpose, the study uses different econometric techniques to find the long-term effects of the rule of law, regulatory quality, corruption control, government effectiveness, political stability, voice and accountability, and economic growth on oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectricity, and renewable energy consumption. The results show that economic growth has a positive impact on all investigated renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Additionally, regulatory quality measures also increase all types of renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption. Except for natural gas, the impact of the rule of law is negative, and government effectiveness positively affects all energy sources. Control of corruption has a positive effect on natural gas consumption. Political stability has a negative effect on nonrenewable energy sources and a positive impact on renewable energy sources. The magnitudes of the effects of economic growth and most governance indicators are found to be larger on nonrenewable sources than renewable sources. The testing of the energy consumption and governance nexus is scant in global literature and is missing in South Asian literature. Hence, the study results contribute to how South Asian economies can be more sustainable in energy use by enhancing governance indicators in the economies. Particularly, the results imply that these countries should focus on improving the rule of law, corruption control, governance, regulatory quality, political stability, and economic growth to help maintain a sustainable balance of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Moreover, this issue needs further attention in developing countries, as governance indicators would play an effective role in promoting sustainable energy.

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Rule of Law, Corruption Control, Governance, and Economic Growth in Managing Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Consumption in South Asia

Mahmood

Tanveer

Furqan

2021

IJERPH

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“…These six indicators, which are further integrated into the model individually, are: control of corruption, political stability and absence of violence, rule of law, government effectiveness, voice and accountability, and regulatory quality. Asongu and Odhiambo (2021) argue that governance is detrimental to renewable energy consumption in sub‐Saharan Africa. In addition, Bellakhal et al (2019) posit that bad governance is detrimental to renewable energy investment and that this effect is moderated by trade openness, which has positive effects on renewable energy investment even in countries with low institutional quality.…”

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Natural resources, renewable energy, and governance: A path towards sustainable development

Nchofoung

Ojöng

2022

Sustainable Development

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Based on data for 48 African countries for the period 2000–2020, we analyse the effects of natural resources on renewable energy development and the mediating effects of governance on that relationship. For this purpose, the Ordinary Least Squares method was used to develop a baseline regression model, and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach was used for the dynamic model regression. Quantile regression was used for robustness checking across the various distributions of renewable energy. First, we find that natural resources enhance renewable energy development in Africa and that the results are robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance, except for forest resources, which have a negative effect on renewable energy development. When robustness is checked through a quantile regression analysis, the results show that the positive effect depends on the conditional distribution of natural resources and the type of natural resource under consideration. The negative effect of total natural resources becomes weaker as we move towards higher quantiles. Second, governance interacts with natural resource rents to generate positive effects across different governance specifications and natural resources, except for coal rent. We thereby derive some relevant implications for renewable energy financing in the Global South.

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“…In 2019, about 770 million people were without access to electricity, and above 2.6 billion people worldwide lacked access to efficient cooking facilities, highlighting the global scope of EP (IEA, 2020). The scenario is much worse in budding economies, with the poorest regions being South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Asongu and Odhiambo, 2022). According to the International Energy Agency, IEA (2020), approximately 580 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) did not have electric power in 2019, while only about 17% of households used eco-friendly cooking in 2018, with these figures projected to worsen due to the adverse consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (IEA, 2020).…”

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Does public capital expenditure reduce energy poverty? Evidence from Nigeria

Dimnwobi

Onuoha²,

Uzoechina

et al. 2022

IJESM

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Purpose Given the ever-growing fiscal commitments of Nigeria and her chequered history of electricity generation and distribution, the fortunes of the energy sector in the country have been affected by the prevalence of energy poverty. Government policies such as public capital expenditure (PCE) present a crucial option for reducing energy poverty in Nigeria, providing the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach To investigate the relationship between government capital spending and five distinct energy poverty proxies, this research applies the Bayer–Hanck cointegration system and the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test. Findings The findings indicate that public capital spending in Nigeria worsens energy poverty by reducing access to electricity, urban electrification, renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity generation, with a positive but insignificant influence on rural electrification. Originality/value This inquiry presents a pioneering investigation of the nexus between PCE and energy poverty in Nigeria. Also, aside from the variables of energy poverty adopted by existing studies, this study incorporates renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity output with implications for energy poverty and sustainable development.

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Governance and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 29 publications

References 67 publications

Rule of Law, Corruption Control, Governance, and Economic Growth in Managing Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Consumption in South Asia

Rule of Law, Corruption Control, Governance, and Economic Growth in Managing Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Consumption in South Asia

Natural resources, renewable energy, and governance: A path towards sustainable development

Does public capital expenditure reduce energy poverty? Evidence from Nigeria

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