The environmental effects of economic growth and globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A panel general method of moments approach

Twerefou, Daniel Kwabena; Danso-Mensah, Kwadwo; Bokpin, Godfred A.

doi:10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.028

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“…The ecological footprint is a globally comparable, comprehensive, and reliable assessment of environmental impacts. Human activity's impacts on land, air, and water in ecosystems have lately been shown to be more prevalent than carbon dioxide emissions [42][43][44].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Globalization, Energy Use, and Trade on Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Environmental Sustainability Exist?

Rehman

Rădulescu

et al. 2021

Energies

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Globalization has contributed to several advances in technology including linking people around the globe and driving us to modern economies. With fast economic growth and industrialization progress, the negative impact of globalization on biodiversity can be easily ignored. Globalization is an undeniable factor in our planetary devastation from pollution to global warming and climate change. The major intention of our recent analysis was to examine the globalization, energy consumption, trade, economic growth, and fuel importation to determine the ecological footprint in Pakistan by taking the annual data variables from 1974–2017. A linear ARDL (autoregressive distributed lag) technique with limited information maximum likelihood and linear Gaussian model estimation were utilized to check the variables association. Outcomes show that in the long run, globalization, energy usage, trade, and GDP growth have consistently productive interactions with the ecological footprint, while an examination of fuel importation uncovers an adversative linkage to impacts on the ecological footprint in Pakistan. Similarly, the findings of short-run interactions also reveal that globalization, energy usage, trade, and GDP growth have constructive linkages; however, an examination of fuel importation also uncovers an adversative linkage to impacts on the ecological footprint. The outcomes of limited information maximum likelihood also expose that the variables of globalization, energy usage, trade, and fuel importation have productive linkages, while an examination the GDP growth uncovers an adversative linkage to the ecological footprint. Furthermore, the outcomes of the linear Gaussian model estimation also uncover that globalization and energy usage demonstrate a constructive linkage, while other variables reveal an adverse linkage to the ecological footprint. Environmental pollution is now an emerging issue which causes the climatic variations associated with greenhouse gases emissions. The Pakistani government must adopt new strategies to ensure that CO2 emissions are reduced in order to stimulate economic growth.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Globalization, Energy Use, and Trade on Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Environmental Sustainability Exist?

Rehman

Rădulescu

et al. 2021

Energies

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“…However, globalization did not influence CO 2 emissions and round wood production. Twerefou et al [36] evaluated the link between globalization and carbon dioxide emissions for 36 African countries. By using the GMM method, it was disclosed that globalization degraded environmental quality in selected African countries.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting Natural Resources—Globalization-Environmental Quality Nexus: Fresh Insights from South Asian Countries

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Widespread interference of human activities has resulted in major environmental problems, including pollution, global warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss, directly affecting the sustainability and quality of the environment and ecosystem. The study aims to address the impact of the extraction of natural resources and globalization on the environmental quality in the South Asian countries for the period 1991–2018. A new methodology Dynamic Common Correlated Effects is used to deal with cross-sectional dependence. Most previous studies use only carbon dioxide emissions, which is an inadequate measure of environmental quality. Besides carbon dioxide emissions, we have used other greenhouse gas emissions like nitrous oxide and methane emissions with a new indicator, “ecological footprint”. Long-run estimation results indicate a positive and significant relationship of natural resources with all greenhouse gas emissions and a negative association with the ecological footprint. Globalization shows a negative association with carbon dioxide emissions and nitrous oxide emissions and a positive relationship with the ecological footprint. Institutional performance is negatively correlated with carbon dioxide emissions, methane emissions, and ecological footprint while positively associated with nitrous oxide emissions. The overall findings highlight the pertinence of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ecological footprint, proper utilizing of natural resources, enhancing globalization, and improving institutional performance to ensure environmental sustainability.

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“…It should be noted that the idea of sustainability seeks to explain how human activity can successfully sustain itself without depleting the resources on which it feeds on. Although many scholars agree that the notion of sustainability encompasses constant consumption over time, views about how to meet the needs of the current generation without compromising that of future generations are still hotly contested (Twerefou et al 2017).…”

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“…However, the decomposition of globalization into different domains (political, economic, and social) revealed that apart from the political dimension, all dimensions drive human pressures and demands on the environment. Twerefou et al (2017) examine how economic growth and globalization affect environmental quality in sub-Saharan Africa. Using trade openness as a measure of globalization, the paper finds that globalization had a worsening impact on environmental quality.…”

Section: Globalization and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Farazmand and Moradi (2015) found in Middle and North African (MENA) countries that trade openness (a measure of globalization) reduces the level of pollution and improves environmental quality. Although the findings of Farazmand and Moradi (2015) and Twerefou et al (2017) are conflicting, the weakness of the two papers is that globalization is examined only from an economic perspective. Using Genuine savings (also known as adjusted-net savings) as the measure of sustainability, Costantini and Martini (2006) examined the linkages between higher welfare levels and natural resource consumption.…”

Section: Globalization and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governance, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Framework

Langnel¹,

Pathranarakul²

2020

JSD

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This paper proposes some assumptions on the intricate relationship between governance, globalization, and sustainable development. A literature-based analysis was used. We assume that because environmental problems are complex, multi-faced, and transboundary, the relationship between governance and sustainable development may not always be linear. With respect to political institutions, we propose that a democracy is most likely (than autocracy) to promote sustainable development. The paper further signals that though globalization is likely to exert a negative impact on sustainable development, the relationship may be moderated by the level of economic development as well as the institutional quality. These assumptions will help researchers and practitioners in sustainability studies and other allied fields.

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The environmental effects of economic growth and globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A panel general method of moments approach

Cited by 125 publications

References 36 publications

The Impact of Globalization, Energy Use, and Trade on Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Environmental Sustainability Exist?

The Impact of Globalization, Energy Use, and Trade on Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Environmental Sustainability Exist?

Revisiting Natural Resources—Globalization-Environmental Quality Nexus: Fresh Insights from South Asian Countries

Governance, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Framework

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