[PDF] Top 20 Economic growth, military spending and environmental degradation in Africa

... In addition to this, the African continent experienced between 1 January and 30 September 2016 no less than 1,426 incidents of violence related in one way or another to terrorist activities. During this period, sixteen ... See full document

... the military-growth relationship in South Africa has been dominated by linear ...between military spending and economic growth in South Africa may be ...between ... See full document

... the growth rate of GDP on the components of government expenditure, corruption and other control ...through economic and institutional reforms are ...on economic growth, it is useful to ... See full document

... between military spending and economic growth in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey between the years 1988-2013 are ... See full document

... South Africa and Nigeria (Menyah and Wolde-Rufael (2010), Kohler (2013), Shahbaz et ...instance, economic activity could affect environmental degradation differently during the upswing of the ... See full document

... between economic de- velopment and the environment in ...dynamic environmental Kuznets curve can emerge by introducing pollution and abatement technology in a public spending model of en- dogenous ... See full document

... run economic growth include, among others, Feder (1983), Landau (1983), Ram (1983, 1986), Grier and Tullock (1989), Romer (1989), Barro (1990, 1991), Levine and Renelt (1992), Devarajan et ...government ... See full document

... on economic growth of 8 ASEAN countries from 1965 to ...causing economic growth to slow ...on economic growth controlled by explanatory variables such as human capital, energy ... See full document

... and economic growth and fail to provide support for the conventional wisdom of adverse impact of military spending on economic ... See full document

... The environmental debacle begins when the waste rejection crosses the assimilative capacity of the ...process. Environmental issues of degradation and depletion are better seen as multi-dimensional ... See full document

... The growth of economic activities, in terms of production and consumption, requires larger inputs of energy and material that generate a greater quantity of waste by-products (Georgescu-Roegen, ...of ... See full document

... rapid growth inevitably leads to higher utilization of natural resources and thus higher emissions of pollutants, which in turn worsens the environmental ...environment, economic growth could ... See full document

... In the same way, the Wola people of Papua New Guinea also provide us with yet another example to explain the correlation between resource scarcity and environmental adaptation. Living in highland areas that are ... See full document

... support economic growth, trade and environment but there is no unique relationship with ...for environmental indicators is shown by income ratio and none of hypothesis showing relationship between ... See full document

... between military spending and economic growth is largely inconclu- sive for either the sign or the magnitude of these ...in military spending bring through several transmission ... See full document

... Abstract: Environmental issues have been ranked among the most intense debates over the past decades by governments around the ...the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) ...from economic growth, ... See full document

... decreases military burden by ...between military expenditure and ...between military expenditures as a percentage of government expenditure and Bollen’s Political Democracy ... See full document

... Developing countries are capital deficient countries and the financial system of these countries are expected to among others, mobilize saving and channel same to investors efficiently. The financial system of these ... See full document

... model, profit rate, d(profit), is used as a dependent variable; unemployment rate, d(unemp), and Pigou exploitation variable, d(pigou), and a constant term are used as state invariant exogenous variables; military ... See full document

... stimulate economic progress and have an impact on the quantity and efficiency on the factors of ...on economic growth in Nigeria, between 1970 and ... See full document