Non-renewable energy consumption and quality of life: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African economies

Ibrahim, Ridwan Lanre; Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Omokanmi, Olatunde Julius

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102176

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“…The aforementioned features of system‐GMM enhance the estimation of the “true” impacts in the presence of potentially endogenous regressors. Consistent with the extant studies (Asongu & Odhiambo, 2019; Ibrahim & Ajide, 2021, 2022; Ibrahim, Ajide, et al, 2021; Ibrahim, Julius, et al, 2021), an abridged model of the estimator in level (6) and first difference (7) is presented thus.

\begin{array}{l} left & \ln S E G_{i t} = α + β_{1} \ln S E G_{i t - 1} + β_{2} \ln K_{i t} + β_{3} \ln H_{i t} + β_{4} \ln T F_{i t} + β_{5} \ln i n s t_{i t} \\ left & + β_{6} (\ln T F_{i t} \times \ln I n s t_{i t}) + β_{7} X + σ_{i t} \end{array} …

\begin{array}{l} left & \ln S E G_{i t} = β_{1} (\ln S E G_{i t - 1} - \ln S E G_{i t - 2 ϕ}) + β_{2} ((\ln K_{i t} - \ln K_{i t - ϕ}) + β_{3} (\ln H_{i t} - \ln H_{i t - ϕ} \end{array}

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“…The adoption of this estimator can be justified on two grounds. First, the system‐GMM approach is very efficient in controlling for the unobservable country‐specific effects and its omitted variable bias by first‐differencing the panel equation (Ibrahim & Ajide, 2021; Ibrahim, Ajide, et al, 2021). Second, the system‐GMM estimator combines the differenced and level equations and utilizes the lagged level and differenced variables as instruments in estimating the parameters (Sakyi et al, 2018).…”

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Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

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Ibrahim

Bello

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African Development Review

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This paper examines the direct and interactive impacts of trade facilitation and institutions on sustainable economic growth (SEG) for 41 Sub-Saharan African economies from 2005 to 2019. The study explores the components of trade facilitation focusing on costs, documents and days (exports and imports) with the aggregated index (TFindex) and institutions, including voice and accountability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, political stability and violence, and control of corruption, used on GDP per capita growth. The empirical evidence relies on the two-step dynamic-system generalized method of moments estimator, accounting for endogeneity, simultaneity, measurement error and reverse causality concerns. The study finds that facilitating trade procedures is a viable option for achieving SEG in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. In addition, institutions driven by government effectiveness, political stability, and regulatory quality are boosters to SEG in the region. Lastly, the interactive impacts of trade facilitation and institutions positively predict the SEG. The study suggests that achieving efficient trading procedures and a sturdy institutional framework will enhance full exploration of the growth potential in SEG. K E Y W O R D Sdynamic-system generalized method of moments, institutions, Sub-Saharan African countries, sustainable economic growth, trade facilitation | INTRODUCTIONThe urgent need to tackle the persistent challenges hampering economic, social and environmental sustainability in the past few decades has witnessed a series of efforts and policy suggestions from governments, policymakers, and national and international organizations. Prominent among these efforts in recent times is the convergence of world leaders from 193 countries across the globe in September 2015, which led to a series of agreements on common and ambitious global goals: "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". The Agenda is a well-thoughtout action plan for people, the planet, prosperity, peace and partnership on a set of 17 goals and 169 targets. The motivation behind these goals is the need to build on the achievements recorded in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and further pursue the targets not met. For instance, while the Millennium Development Goal of reducing extreme poverty by 2015 was met, statistics still show that more than 800 million people globally are extremely poor,

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\begin{array}{l} left & \ln S E G_{i t} = α + β_{1} \ln S E G_{i t - 1} + β_{2} \ln K_{i t} + β_{3} \ln H_{i t} + β_{4} \ln T F_{i t} + β_{5} \ln i n s t_{i t} \\ left & + β_{6} (\ln T F_{i t} \times \ln I n s t_{i t}) + β_{7} X + σ_{i t} \end{array} …

\begin{array}{l} left & \ln S E G_{i t} = β_{1} (\ln S E G_{i t - 1} - \ln S E G_{i t - 2 ϕ}) + β_{2} ((\ln K_{i t} - \ln K_{i t - ϕ}) + β_{3} (\ln H_{i t} - \ln H_{i t - ϕ} \end{array}

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Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

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Ibrahim

Bello

et al. 2022

African Development Review

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“…Balakrishnan et al (2019) explained that air pollution might not be harmful to LEXP if it is below the pollution, causing loss of health. On the contrary, some studies established the hypothesis that FFEC reduces LEXP (Ibrahim, 2022; Ibrahim et al, 2021; Ibrahim et al, 2022; Lelieveld et al, 2020; Sial et al, 2022).…”

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“…This improves quality of life and reduces mortality and rates of morbidity. Ibrahim et al (2021) stated that an increase in income allows for a transition to energy consumption that is cleaner and healthcare services that are better. Halicioglu (2011) included economic growth as one of the determinants of LEXP.…”

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The asymmetric impact of fossil fuel and renewable energy consumption on life expectancy in Nigeria

Somoye

Özdeşer

Seraj

2023

Natural Resources Forum

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The life expectancy rate is an essential yardstick for measuring people's well–being. The healthier the population, the better the economic rate of productivity. Not many studies have investigated the asymmetric link between energy use and life expectancy. Thus, this paper addresses the gap by evaluating the impact of fossil fuel (FFEC) and renewable energy consumption (RNEW) on life expectancy (LEXP) in Nigeria from 1965–2019 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Non‐linear ARDL methods. The bounds test to cointegration confirmed the presence of long‐run association. According to the findings of the ARDL technique, FFEC and RNEW improve LEXP in the long and short‐run. In addition, the NARDL result confirms that a positive shock in FFEC and RNEW improves LEXP in the long and short‐run. This study suggests that cleaner technologies should be applied to fossil fuel sources, while the importance and use of RNEW sources should be continually promoted.

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Heterogeneous dynamic impacts of nonrenewable energy, resource rents, technology, human capital, and population on environmental quality in Sub-Saharan African countries

Zhang

Ajide

Ibrahim

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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Non-renewable energy consumption and quality of life: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African economies

Cited by 27 publications

References 36 publications

Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

Trade facilitation, institutions, and sustainable economic growth: Empirical evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

The asymmetric impact of fossil fuel and renewable energy consumption on life expectancy in Nigeria

Heterogeneous dynamic impacts of nonrenewable energy, resource rents, technology, human capital, and population on environmental quality in Sub-Saharan African countries

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