Enhancing ICT for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Roux, Sara le; Biekpe, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.022

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“…From an empirical standpoint, a hypothesis on persistence can be examined using a dynamic estimation technique. An example of such an estimation strategy is the GMM that has been used in recent studies to investigate persistence in economic phenomena (Asongu, Le Roux, & Biekpe, 2018;Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2018).…”

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Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Asongu

2018

Sustainable Development

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Motivated by sustainable development challenges in sub‐Saharan Africa, this study assesses the comparative persistence of environmental unsustainability in a sample of 44 countries in the subregion for the period 2000–2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Of the six hypotheses tested, it is not feasible to assess the hypothesis on resource‐wealth because of issues in the degrees of freedom. For the remaining hypotheses, the following findings are established. (i) Hypothesis 1 postulating that middle‐income countries have a lower level of persistence in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is valid for CO2 per‐capita emissions, CO2 emissions from electricity and heat production and CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption. (ii) Hypothesis 2 that countries on the edge of French civil law is valid for CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption and CO2 intensity, but not for CO2 per‐capita emissions. (iii) Hypothesis 3 on the postulation that politically unstable countries reflect more persistence is valid for CO2 per‐capita emissions. (iv) Hypothesis 5 on the propensity for landlocked countries to be associated with more persistence in CO2 emissions is valid for CO2 per‐capita emissions but not for CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption. (v) Hypothesis 6 maintaining that Christianity‐dominated countries are more environmentally friendly with regard to CO2 emissions is valid for CO2 per‐capita emissions but not for CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption and CO2 intensity. Implications for policy and theory are discussed.

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Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Asongu

2018

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“…However, the effect of InterNet use is insignificant on CO 2 emissions due to slow InterNet speed. Also, Asongu et al (2018) examined the enhancing effect of ICT on CO 2 through use of a generalised method of moment approach. The established findings recommend that increasing ICT reduces CO 2 emissions.…”

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“…Large data centres and mobile data traffic will pose an even larger threat to the environment (Lennerfors, Fors, & van Rooijen, 2015). Thus, both the processing and production of ICT devices are responsible for increasing CO 2 emissions (Asongu, Le Roux, & Biekpe, 2018;J. W. A. N. Lee & Brahmasrene, 2016;Salahuddin, Alam, & Ozturk, 2016).…”

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Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO₂ emissions

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2019

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The environmental impact of information and communication technology (ICT) has drawn increasing attention for two decades. The behaviour of ICT is positive towards economic growth; however, its environmental implications cannot be ignored. This empirical research explores the roles of ICT, economic growth, and energy consumption in environmental pollution across different regions from 1990 to 2015. Robust long‐run panel data estimation methods fully modified ordinary least square and dynamic ordinary least square and Driscoll–Kraay regression are applied. To summarise the results, ICT reduces the level of CO2 emissions across high‐ and middle‐income countries; however, contrary to this, ICT increases CO2 emissions in low‐income countries. Also, energy consumption is responsible for the increase in CO2 emissions in all income groups as expected. Finally, the environmental Kuznets curve is proved in all income groups. It is inferred that high‐ and middle‐income regions of the world have achieved a level of environmental sustainability in the significance of ICT, but this is not the case in low‐income countries.

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“…Also, ICT applications associated to the services sector are widely reported; for example, Tob-Ogu et al [14] report their use in road freight transport, Vogel [15] reports application in healthcare, and Alt [16] makes an analysis related to ICT uses in education and training. More specifically, ICT applications in sustainability are reported by Pattinson [17], which demonstrates the importance of this technology in sustainable operation, focusing on green production and social responsibility; Asongu et al [18] report the special case of ICT application in the Sub Saharan region and Añón Higón et al [19] report an important global analysis associated to ICT applied to environmental development.…”

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The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

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This article reports a model of structural equations that integrates four latent variables and six hypotheses among them: Integration of information and communication technology (ICT), investment in ICT, training in ICT, and operational benefits obtained in the supply chain (SC). The model is validated with information obtained from 80 surveys applied to manufacturing companies in the municipalities of Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, and Tijuana in Mexico. The information is validated by the Cronbach alpha index for internal validity and the R-square index for predictive validity. Partial least-squares algorithms are used to validate the hypotheses in the model and the results indicate that the integration of technology is the basis for the success of the implementation of information technologies, and that the application of these guarantees the obtaining of operational benefits in the productive system.

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Enhancing ICT for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 347 publications

References 62 publications

Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO₂ emissions

The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

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Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Comparative sustainable development in sub‐Saharan Africa

Towards cross‐regional sustainable development: The nexus between information and communication technology, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions

The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

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