Pollution emission and institutions nexus in Africa

Dieudonne Mignamissi ()

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Abstract: This paper tests the pollution emissions and institutions quality nexus in Africa, through political regime and governance indicators. We apply the system GMM estimator on a dynamic panel of 50 African countries over the period 1990-2014. The key finding suggests that a reinforcement of legislation through the improvement of institutional quality has a negative and significant effect on pollution emissions. Moreover, the findings validate the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Africa. The results call for some policy recommendations in environmental regulation for African economies, including strengthening of institutional quality, adoption of specialized investment promotion agencies on the attractiveness of green FDI, implementation of incentive mechanisms in favour of companies that have adopted greening program of their activities

Keywords: Pollution emissions; institutions; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q52 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-03
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