Is there a trade-off between sustainable society targets in Sub-Saharan Africa?
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY, cilt.51, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 51
- Basım Tarihi: 2019
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101705
- Dergi Adı: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Sustainable development, Poverty, Carbon dioxide (CO2), Africa, Panel quantile regression
- Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Poverty and climate change are important matters to be struggled within the scope of sustainable development goals. However, there may exist a paradoxical situation that implies a trade-off relationship between poverty alleviation and CO2 emissions reduction efforts. In this context, this paper investigates whether such a relationship existed or not in the 48 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2010-2016 by employing a panel quantile regression method. Estimation outputs reveal that there is a strong trade-off between poverty and CO2 emissions for all quantile levels. Results also provide evidence that access to electricity has a reducing and enhancing effect on poverty and CO2 emissions, respectively. Results also show that institutional improvements help reducing both poverty and CO2 emissions.