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Trade facilitation and environmental quality: empirical evidence from some selected African countries
Environment, Development and Sustainability ( IF 4.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 , DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01497-8
Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim , Kazeem Bello Ajide

The growing trend of economic integration and globalization has made the need to harmonize cross-border trade and their associated procedures among trading countries, inevitable. Nonetheless, there is an emerging debate about the environmental consequences of engaging in trade interactions among the policymakers, trade pundits and researchers alike. To this end, this study examines whether Africa’s inefficient trade facilitation procedures hold plausible explanations for her coincidental low incidence of carbon emissions. The empirical evidence is based on both Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (POLS) and Two-Step System Generalized Method of Moments (Sys-GMM) on six components of trade facilitation (costs, documents and time required to import and export) vis-à-vis the environmental measures including carbon emissions (CO2), and nitrous oxides (N2O) on a panel of 48 African countries over the period spanning, 2005–2014. While the choice of the former estimator is chiefly influenced by the need to have a baseline model on the one hand, the choice of the latter is motivated by the need to account for econometric concerns including endogeneity, reverse causality and simultaneity bias, respectively, on the other hand. The main finding from the study reveals a significant negative relationship between trade facilitation and environmental pollution captured. On the policy perspective, determining the threshold levels of trade procedural measures is necessary for achieving effective regulation of inflow of carbon–embodied goods and services into an already environmentally lax continent.



中文翻译:

贸易便利化和环境质量:某些非洲国家的经验证据

经济一体化和全球化的增长趋势使得不可避免地需要协调贸易国之间的跨境贸易及其相关程序。尽管如此,关于决策者,贸易专家和研究人员之间进行贸易互动的环境后果的辩论正在不断涌现。为此,本研究探讨了非洲低效率的贸易便利化程序是否对巧合的低碳排放发生率持有合理的解释。经验证据是基于贸易便利化的六个组成部分(进口,出口所需的成本,文件和时间)的集合普通最小二乘(POLS)和两步系统广义矩量法(Sys-GMM)得出的。针对包括碳排放量(CO2)在内的环境措施,2005年至2014年期间,由48个非洲国家组成的小组讨论了二氧化氮和一氧化二氮(N2O)的问题。虽然前者的选择主要受到一方面需要基线模型的影响,但后者的选择却是由于需要分别考虑内生性,反向因果关系和同时性偏见等经济计量问题而产生的。另一方面。该研究的主要发现表明,贸易便利化与捕获的环境污染之间存在显着的负相关关系。从政策的角度来看,确定贸易程序措施的阈值水平对于实现对含碳商品和服务流入已经环境松懈的大陆的有效监管是必要的。虽然前者的选择主要受到一方面需要基线模型的影响,但后者的选择却是由于需要分别考虑内生性,反向因果关系和同时性偏见等经济计量问题而产生的。另一方面。该研究的主要发现表明,贸易便利化与捕获的环境污染之间存在显着的负相关关系。从政策的角度来看,确定贸易程序措施的阈值水平对于实现对含碳商品和服务流入已经环境松懈的大陆的有效监管是必要的。虽然前者的选择主要受到一方面需要基线模型的影响,但后者的选择却是由于需要分别考虑内生性,反向因果关系和同时性偏见等经济计量问题而产生的。另一方面。该研究的主要发现表明,贸易便利化与捕获的环境污染之间存在显着的负相关关系。从政策的角度来看,确定贸易程序措施的阈值水平对于实现对含碳商品和服务流入已经环境松懈的大陆的有效监管是必要的。另一方面,后者的选择是由于需要考虑计量经济学方面的考虑,而这些方面分别包括内生性,反向因果关系和同时性偏见。该研究的主要发现表明,贸易便利化与捕获的环境污染之间存在显着的负相关关系。从政策的角度来看,确定贸易程序措施的阈值水平对于实现对含碳商品和服务流入已经环境松懈的大陆的有效监管是必要的。另一方面,后者的选择是由于需要考虑计量方面的考虑,而这些考虑分别包括内生性,反向因果关系和同时性偏见。该研究的主要发现表明,贸易便利化与捕获的环境污染之间存在显着的负相关关系。从政策的角度来看,确定贸易程序措施的阈值水平对于实现对含碳商品和服务流入已经环境松懈的大陆的有效监管是必要的。

更新日期:2021-05-11
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