Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205021 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/19/051
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This study investigates linkages between environmental degradation, globalisation and governance in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 2000-2012. The Generalised Method of Moments is employed as empirical strategy. Environmental degradation is proxied by carbon dioxide emissions whereas globalisation is appreciated in terms of trade openness and net foreign direct investment inflows. Bundled and unbundled governance indicators are used, namely: political governance (consisting of political stability/no violence and "voice & accountability"), economic governance (encompassing government effectiveness and regulation quality), institutional governance (entailing corruption-control and the rule of law) and general governance (a composite measurement of political governance, economic governance and institutional governance). The following main finding is established. Trade openness modulates carbon dioxide emissions to have positive net effects on political stability, economic governance, the rule of law and general governance.
Subjects: 
Carbon dioxide emissions
Economic development
Africa
JEL: 
C52
O38
O40
O55
P37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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