Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ogochukwu Christiana Anyanwu, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
The countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the greatest potential for renewable energy consumption in the world and is likely to be the most vulnerable to the horrendous effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of the countries have tapped into this potential, a...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ozoemena Stanley Nwodo, Abdulrauf Adediran, Gagan Deep Sharma et al.
The study explores the relationship between ecological footprint, urbanization, and energy consumption by applying the ARDL estimation technique on data spanning 1965-2014 for South Africa. After applying the unit root test that accounts for a break in the data, the Bayer and Hanck (J Time Ser Anal ...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Md Shabbir Alam, Muntasir Murshed, Haider Mahmood et al.
In the current century, the G7 countries have attached more importance to energy security, and have prioritized low-carbon sources which have necessitated the consumption of nuclear and renewable energy resources to achieve a resilient low-carbon system. However, it is still not clear if the sacrifi...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ozoemena Stanley Nwodo, Gagan Deep Sharma, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
Emerging economies are mostly plague by a massive consumption of non-renewable energy amidst an ever inceasing urbanization rate with little or no attention to the quality of the environmental. As such, this paper investigates the relationship between renewable energy, urbanization, economic growth,...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Muntasir Murshed, Mohga Bassim
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Suborna Barua, Zahoor Ahmed
The persistent dwindling of the biocapacity has caused the ecological footprint (EF) to keep increasing in the top ten tourist destinations over the last three decades. Moreso, economic growth, natural resource rent, and urbanization substantially increased for the same period. Tourism contributes t...
Muntasir Murshed, Seemran Rashid, Recep Ulucak, Vishal Dagar et al.
The energy sector of Argentina is predominantly reliant on fossil fuels. Consequently, such fossil fuel dependency within the nation's power sector, in particular, has aggravated the environmental quality in Argentina by amplifying the nation's energy production-based carbon emission levels. However...
Ayoub Zeraibi, Zahoor Ahmed, Khurram Shehzad, Muntasir Murshed et al.
Recently, China has declared its national objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2060. Hence, mitigating carbon dioxide emissions has become an important agenda of the Chinese government. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of pursuing expansionary fiscal and moneta...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Suborna Barua, Hamid Yahya Hussain, Bosede Ngozi Adeleye
This study explores the interrelationship between CO 2 emissions and economic growth in selected Africa economies from 1990 to 2014 providing evidence from both static and dynamic models. Results show that increases in energy use have a significant and positive effect on economic growth; which goes ...
Muntasir Murshed, Syed Rashid Ali, Mohammad Haseeb, Solomon Prince Nathaniel
Although international remittances are expected to spawn welfares within the recipient economies, the public moral hazard problems associated with such inflows often trigger apprehensions. Against this backdrop, this paper aimed to evaluate the public spending responses to inward foreign remittances...
Muhammad Ibrahim Shah, Avik Sinha, Arshian Sharif, Solomon Prince Nathaniel
The COVID-19 pandemic has induced shutdowns, closures of schools and manufacturing industries, and social distancing protocols worldwide. As a result, the world has witnessed a massive reduction in air pollution. This study intends to analyze the causal relationship between air pollution and COVID-1...