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Institutional quality and CO2 emission-trade relations: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorSiong Hook Law
dc.contributor.authorMansor H. Ibrahim
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-01T10:33:50Z
dc.date.available2016-08-01T10:33:50Z
dc.date.disclosure2016-07-22
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the roles of trade, institutional quality and their interactions in explaining carbon dioxide emissions in a panel sample of 40 Sub-Sahara African countries using the system generalised method of moments. We find that institutional reforms are unequivocally environmental improving. Meanwhile, the impacts of trade on the environment tend to depend on the institutional setting of a country. More specifically, trade openness is harmful to the environment in countries with low institutional quality and beneficial to the environment in countries with high institutional quality. This means that institutional reforms are a perquisite for the countries with low institutional quality to actualise the beneficial environment effect of trade. As for the countries with adequate institutional quality, trade and institutions are reinforcing each other in bringing down pollution. From these results, we conclude that trade openness implemented in a sound institutional setting potentially brings better trade, more growth and better environment.
dc.identifier.citationIbrahim, M. H. & Siong, H. L. (2015). Institutional quality and CO2 emission-trade relations: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. South African Journal of Economics, 84 (2), pp. 323-340.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12095
dc.identifier.urihttps://ikr.inceif.org/handle/INCEIF/1762
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley Online Library
dc.rights2015. Wiley
dc.sourceCRP
dc.subjectTrade
dc.subjectPollution relations
dc.subjectInstitutions
dc.subjectSub-Sahara Africa
dc.titleInstitutional quality and CO2 emission-trade relations: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
dlc.maintopicIslamic economics
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ikr.topic.maintopicIslamic economics
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