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2. Female Labour Force Participation in Saudi Arabia and its Determinants
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Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin
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labour force ,female labour force participation ,Labor and Human Capital ,economic growth - Abstract
Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 recognized female labor force participation as an important component for economic growth. This study investigates the relationship between female labor force participation rate, female tertiary school enrolment, female life expectancy and per capita income measured quarterly between 1991 and 2017. The study employs traditional unit root tests of Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP) and Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin (KPSS) complemented by Zivot and Andrews (ZA) test. Furthermore, for robustness check, combined cointegration test as prescribed by Bayer and Hanck (2013) and Pesaran ARDL bound tests were performed. Toda-Yamamoto causality test examined the causality flow among the variables. The result posits all independent variables have positive significant effect on female labor force participation rate within Saudi Arabia; rendering a policy recommendation: higher female labor participation can be achieved through investment in female education, health sector and achieving economic growth.
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- 2021
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3. Impact of food availability on child mortality: a cross country comparative analysis
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Agboola Mary Oluwatoyin
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Economic growth ,030505 public health ,Cross country ,Food availability ,01 natural sciences ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Child mortality ,010104 statistics & probability ,03 medical and health sciences ,Economics ,0101 mathematics ,0305 other medical science ,Socioeconomics ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance - Published
- 2017
4. Impact of Food Availability on Economic Growth and Child Mortality: A Cross Country Comparative Analysis
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Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin and Balcılar, Mehmet
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Food Crisis ,Economics ,Economic Growth ,Children - Mortality - Economic aspects--Africa ,Africa ,Food Availability ,African Dummy ,Droughts - Africa - Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the impact of food availability on economic growth and child mortality; especially within food insecure African countries where child mortality is high and economic growth is considered as the highest hurdle to overcome. This study made use of both empirical and statistical tools to achieve its objective. The empirical aspect consists of two parts. First, Solow growth model was used to explore the impact of food security on economic growth within 124 countries, including food insecure African countries, for the period 1970-2007; the result posits that food security has a positive impact on economic growth in all the 124 countries and it has even greater impact on economic growth within food insecure African countries. Second, this study examined the impact of food security on child mortality (infant mortality and under-five mortality), using a dynamic panel data analysis for 114 countries for the period 1995-2009 by considering a wide range of controlled variables such as income, social indicators and policy variables. The result suggests that food security has a negative impact on child mortality for all countries and even more impact on child mortality within food insecure African countries. Therefore, based on the findings of this study; it is recommended that an increase in food security is indeed a positive policy option, particularly within food insecure African countries, since it not only enhances economic growth but also ensures a decrease in child mortality within these countries. Keywords: African Dummy, Economic Growth, Food Crisis, Food Availability, Africa. Öz:Bu çalışma özellikle çocuk ölümlerinin yüksek olduğu ve ekonomik büyüme sorununun da yoğun olarak yaşandığı Afrika ülkelerinde, gıda güvenliğinin ekonomik büyüme ve çocuk ölüm oranı üzerindeki etkisini ölçmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Çalışma amacını gerçekleştirmek için hem ampirik hem de istatistiki methotlar kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın ampirik cephesi iki farklı kısımdan oluşmaktadır. İlk kısımda Solow Büyüme Modeli kullanılarak gıda güvenliğinin ekonomik büyüme üzerindeki etkisi, 124 ülke (gıda güvenliği konusunda sıkıntı yaşayan Afrika ülkeleri de dahil) dikkate alınarak, 1970 ile 2007 yılları arasındaki dönem için araştırılmıştır. Bulgular, çalışmaya dahil edilen 124 ülke için gıda güvenliğinin sağlanmasının ekonomik büyüme üzerinde olumlu bir etkisi olduğunu göstermiştir. Gıda güvenliği konusunda sıkıntı yaşayan Afrika ülkelerinde ise gıda güvenliğinin sağlanmasının ekonomik büyümeye etkisi daha yüksek oranda karşımıza çıkmaktadır. İkinci olarak bu çalışma, gıda güvenliğinin çocuk ölümleri (bebek ölümleri ve beş yaş altı çocuk ölümleri) üzerindeki etkisini dinamik panel veri analizi methodunu kullanarak, 114 ülke kapsamında, 1995 ve 2009 yılları arasındaki dönem için ölçmeyi amaçlamıştır. Bağımlı değişkenler için geniş bir değişken listesi tanımlanmıştır. Bu değişkenlere örnek olarak gelir, sosyal göstergeler ve politika değişkenleri gösterilebilir. Çalışma sonuçları gıda güvenliğinin çalışma kapsamındaki tüm ülkeler için çocuk ölümlerinde azaltıcı (negatif) bir etkisi olduğunu göstermektedir. Gıda güvenliği, çocuk ölümlerindeki azaltıcı etkisini gıda güvenliği konusunda sıkıntı yaşayan Afrika ülkelerinde daha belirgin olarak göstermektedir. Böylelikle, çalışma bulgularından yola çıkarak, gıda güvenliğinin artırılmasının, gerek tutarlı bir ekonomik büyüme elde etmede, gerekse çocuk ölümleriyle mücadelede, özellikle de gıda güvenliği konusunda sıkıntı yaşayan Afrika ülkelerinde olumlu bir politika opsiyonu olacağını söylemek mümkündür. Anahtar kelimeler: Afrika Kukla Değişkeni, Ekonomik Büyüme, Gıda Krizleri, Gıda Güvenliği, Afrika. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Economics, 2014. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Balcılar.
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- 2014
5. Modelling Coal Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Does Asymmetry Matter in the Case of South Africa?
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Bekun, Festus Victor, Etokakpan, Mfonobong Udom, Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin, Uzuner, Gizem, and Wada, Isah
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RENEWABLE energy sources , *SUSTAINABLE development , *ECONOMIC expansion , *ENVIRONMENTAL quality , *CLEAN energy , *ENERGY consumption , *ELECTRIC power consumption - Abstract
In accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kyoto protocol and the United Nations Sustainable development goals (UNSDGs) on climate action (SDG-13), there has been a need across economies for transition from fossil-fuel-based energy sources such as coal energy consumption to cleaner energy options i.e., a transition to a low-carbon economy. To this end, the present study explores the asymmetric relationship between coal energy consumption, economic growth, rising urban population and emission level in South Africa. The present study span is conducted on an annual frequency basis from 1965-2018. This study applies the novel Non-linear Autoregressive distributed lag methodology (NARDL) for the highlighted variables. Empirical results validate the asymmetric relationship between the variables under review over the study period. The NARDL regression further shows positive shock by GDP increases CO2 emission level while negative impact affects otherwise in the long run. On the other hand, coal consumption positive shock exhibits a detrimental impact on environmental quality in South Africa. This is insightful for policymakers. The urban population shows non-significant effect on emission levels over the sampled period. The knowledge of both positive and negative shock effects of GDP, coal energy consumption and urban growth is vital for policy construction in terms of both economic and environmental sustainability. Thus, policy prescription ranges from energy transition to alternative and cleaner energy sources like renewables and responsible energy consumption (SDG-12) should be pursued in South Africa. More far-reaching environmental policies are highlighted in the concluding section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Does The Recent Spike in Food Prices Have Any Economic Benefit?
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Agboola Mary Oluwatoyin and Mehmet Balcilar
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Macroeconomics ,Producer price index ,Descriptive statistics ,U.S. Producer Price Index ,Food prices ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,General Engineering ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Producer Price index ,Consumer Price index ,Agricultural economics ,Economics ,Position (finance) ,Food Prices ,Consumer price index ,Emerging markets ,Proxy (statistics) ,health care economics and organizations ,Economic growth - Abstract
Over the last decade, there has been an incessant rise in global food prices; this increase in food prices has been associated with the recent discovery of petroleum product substitute “ethanol”. Since bio-ethanol is mainly produced from food crops such as sugar cane and corn, the increase in the demand for these food crops for ethanol production particularly by emerging markets such as china has imposed enormous pressure on demand for food and food prices. This study investigates the impact of increase in food prices on global economic growth; using food producer price and consumer price index as a proxy, this study examines the gain on the producer side and the loss on consumer side from this increase in food prices and how this gain and loss has impact economic growth. Descriptive analysis and bare bone Solow growth model was use in this study on data from 126 different countries, between year 2000 and 2009 for which data is available and during which there has been increase in food prices to achieve its goal. The result from our findings shows that the increase in food prices; has can be observed from the increase in food producer prices, has a positive impact on economic growth, signifying that the increase in food prices has some benefit on current global economic position. Also, our findings shows that consumer price index has a positive but insignificant relationship with economic growth; implying that the current increase in food consumer price index is not detrimental to global economic growth as one would expect instead there has been global benefit from the hike in food price.
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7. The criticality of growth, urbanization, electricity and fossil fuel consumption to environment sustainability in Africa.
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Asongu, Simplice A., Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin, Alola, Andrew Adewale, and Bekun, Festus Victor
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While most African economies are primarily sandwiched with the seemingly unsurmountable task of attaining consistent economic growth and unhindered energy supply, the enormous threat posed by environmental degradation has further complicated the economic and environmental sustainability drive. In this context, the present study examines the effect of economic growth, urbanization, electricity consumption, fossil fuel energy consumption, and total natural resources rent on pollutant emissions in Africa over the period 1980–2014. By employing selected African countries, the current study relies on the Kao and Pedroni cointegration tests to cointegration analysis, the Pesaran's Panel Pooled Mean Group-Autoregressive distributive lag methodology (ARDL-PMG) for long run regression while Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) is employed for the detection of causality direction among the outlined variables. The study traces long run equilibrium relationships between examined indicators. The ARDL-PMG results suggest a statistical positive relationship between pollutant emissions and urbanization, electricity consumption and non-renewable energy consumption. Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) Granger causality test lends support to the long-run regression results. A bi-directional causality is observed between pollutant emissions, electricity consumption, economic growth and pollutant emissions while a unidirectional causality is apparent between total natural resources rent and pollutant emission. Based on these results, several policy implications for the African continent were suggested. (a) The need for a paradigm shift from fossil fuel sources to renewables is encouraged in the region (b) The need to embrace carbon storage and capturing techniques to decouple pollutant emissions from economic growth on the continent's growth trajectory. Further policy insights are elucidated. Unlabelled Image • Investigation of environmental degradation in selected African countries • Long and short-run pollutant emissions decomposition in Africa • Economic growth-pollutant emission directional causality has a feedback. • Urbanization, electricity consumption and fossil fuel positively impact pollutant emission. • Energy portfolio diversification in Africa is more urgently necessary than ever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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8. Environmental consequences of economic complexities in the EU amidst a booming tourism industry: Accounting for the role of brexit and other crisis events.
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Fatai Adedoyin, Festus, Agboola, Phillips O., Ozturk, Ilhan, Bekun, Festus Victor, and Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin
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ECONOMIC impact , *TOURISM , *BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 , *CARBON emissions , *KUZNETS curve - Abstract
The European Union (EU) is one of the strongest, but most complex unions in the world with a competitive tourism industry. The aim of this study, therefore, is to account for economic complexity index (ECI), Brexit and other crisis episodes in the growth-energy-emissions nexus. Theoretically, the traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model is assessed by adopting a One-step System Generalized Method of Moment (Sys GMM) on data for 26 EU member states over the period from 1995 to 2018. For the first time, an EU-macro regional analysis is conducted with and without the UK. Empirical results reveal that an increase in tourism, real GDP per capita, and energy use across the four EU macro regions leads to increase in carbon emission. In some regions, it was observed that tourism, ECI, Brexit, and the Greece bailout have no significant impact on carbon emission. This suggests that the increase in international travel, complexity of the economy, and financial crisis do not accelerate environmental crisis in such regions. However, where such factors are statistically significant, Brexit and the Greece bailout crisis both heighten emissions. Particularly, when the UK is excluded, Brexit and the Greece bailout crisis increase and reduce emissions, respectively. The EKC hypothesis, however, holds in either scenario. Based on these empirical findings, vital policy directions are suggested for a post-Brexit EU-UK energy and environmental relations. • We examined ECI, Brexit and other crisis episodes in the growth-energy-emissions nexus. • An increase in tourism, real GDP per capita, and energy use lead to increase in carbon emission. • In some regions, tourism, ECI, Brexit, and the Greece bailout have no significant impact on carbon emission. • When the UK is excluded, Brexit and the Greece bailout crisis increase and reduce emissions, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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