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The Causal Relationship Among Foreign Direct Investment, Pollution, And Economic Growth In Sub Saharan Africa Countries: A Panel Data Approach

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  • Ojewumi, J. S.

    (Department of Economics, Adeyemi University of Education, P.M.B. 520, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria.)

  • Posu, S. M. A.

    (Department of Economics, Federal University of Agriculture, P.M.B. 2240, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.)

Abstract

This paper provided empirical evidence on the causal relationship among Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), pollution and economic growth in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The study employed a panel framework for annual secondary time series data sourced from World Development Indicators database of the World Bank (2014) for thirty-three SSA countries for the period 19802014. The data were analyzed using econometric techniques of Panel Unit Root, Panel Cointegration, and Panel Vector Error Correction (PVEC) Granger Causality tests. Panel variance decomposition test was also applied to complement the various tests conducted. The results showed the direction of causality running from FDI to economic growth; from economic growth to pollution; and from pollution to FDI to establish uni-directional relationships among the three variables. Any policy that affects one of the variables will thereafter influence the others. From the study, FDI had a significant role in determining the level of economic growth within the region and that the level of economic growth was significant in determining the pollution density in the countries of SSA. Pollution density was significant in driving FDI in the sub-region. The paper recommends that SSA countries should adopt appropriate mix of environmental and growth policies that would mobilize sufficient FDI inflow for consistent and sustainable economic growth and development in the region.

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  • Ojewumi, J. S. & Posu, S. M. A., 2016. "The Causal Relationship Among Foreign Direct Investment, Pollution, And Economic Growth In Sub Saharan Africa Countries: A Panel Data Approach," West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration, West African Monetary Institute, vol. 16(2), pages 23-44, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wam:journl:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:23-44
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    1. Donia Aloui & Brahim Gaies & Rafla Hchaichi, 2023. "Exploring environmental degradation spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa: the energy–financial instability nexus," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1699-1724, June.

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    Keywords

    FDI; Pollution emissions; Economic growth; Panel cointegration; Granger causality.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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