Examination of the poverty-environmental degradation nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

The relationship between environmental degradation and poverty has increasingly become the focus of national strategic decision-making in recent years. However, despite several theoretical explorations on the nexus, a dearth of empirical literature on the poverty-environmental degradation nexus, spe...

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Published in:	Regional Sustainability
Main Authors:	Sadat Daaki Ssekibaala, Twaha Ahmed Kasule
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2023-09-01
Subjects:	Environmental degradation Poverty Vicious cycle hypothesis Sub-Saharan Africa Generalized method of moments (GMM) approach
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X23000440

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