Industrial development, urbanization and pollution nexus in Africa.

This study evaluates the relationship between industrial development, urbanization and pollution emission in Africa. The IPAT identity was used to examine the impact of industrial development and urbanization on pollution emissions. The validity of the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) was also tested by comparing the econometric results of panel Pool Mean Group (PMG)-based autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) for the period 1990-2019.

Pollution control in Africa: the interplay between financial integration and industrialization.

We employ the pool mean group method of estimation and panel causality to investigate the effect of financial integration and industrial development on pollution in 36 African countries between 1990 and 2019. Result shows a unidirectional causality running from industrial development to financial integration and pollution in Africa. Also, the panel regression shows that financial integration insignificantly abates pollution in the short run, but significantly worsens the long-run pollution in the continent.