Urbanization, industrialization and SO emissions in China: does the innovation ability of cities matter for air quality?

This paper aims to detail the relationships between urbanization, industrialization, the innovation ability of cities and local air quality in 284 cities in China using annual data. For the empirical outputs, the panel quantile regression analysis, which considers the heterogeneous nature of the data set, is employed. Initial findings indicate that (i) urbanization and industrialization negatively affect local air quality.

The nexus between access to energy, poverty reduction and PM in Sub-Saharan Africa: New evidence from the generalized method of moments estimators.

Poverty reduction and environmental quality are the two main agendas of sustainable development goals. However, recent research suggests that there may be a dilemma between efforts to achieve these two goals. This paper aims to explore the existence of a dilemma between poverty and air pollution (PM) in Sub-Saharan African countries using dynamic estimation methods.