Unravelling Africa's raw material footprints and their drivers

Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu, Michael Danquah and Edgar Towa

No wp-2022-115, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper applies an environmentally extended input-output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015. It employs least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and panel regression models to quantify the effects of diverse variables on Africa's raw material footprints. The findings show that the raw material footprints of Africa's production and consumption soared by 41 per cent and 38 per cent, respectively, from 1995 to 2015, mainly driven by biomass and construction materials.

Keywords: Ecological footprint; Input–output; Raw materials; Africa; environmental impact; Regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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