Department of Finance and Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar.
J Environ Manage. 2024 Oct;369:122298. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122298. Epub 2024 Aug 30.
The Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region remains the world's largest recipient of remittances. Due to growing concerns over climate change issues, recent studies have examined how these financial flows have affected environmental quality. Sundry variables were controlled in such studies concerning the remittances-environment nexus, including institutional quality. Notwithstanding that remittance and institutional quality are imperative, their combined effect on environmental quality has been overlooked. The present study has inspected how remittances and institutional quality have jointly influenced environmental quality in 44 economies in the SSA region between 2000 and 2022. Using PMG-ARDL analysis, the findings revealed that remittances had a negative long-term impact on environmental quality. Conversely, the study found that institutional quality positively affected the per capita ecological footprints, as measured by the six indicators' average. Furthermore, the results indicated that improvements in institutional quality over time mitigated the adverse impact of remittances on the environment in the sampled SSA countries. Additionally, a threshold level of institutional quality effectively moderates remittances' detrimental effects on environmental quality were identified. Therefore, most regional countries must enhance their institutional quality to mitigate the negative environmental impact of remittances.
撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）地区仍然是世界上接受汇款最多的地区。由于对气候变化问题的担忧日益加剧，最近的研究已经探讨了这些资金流动如何影响环境质量。在这些关于汇款与环境关系的研究中，控制了各种变量，包括制度质量。尽管汇款和制度质量至关重要，但它们对环境质量的综合影响尚未得到重视。本研究考察了 2000 年至 2022 年间，44 个撒哈拉以南非洲国家的汇款和制度质量如何共同影响环境质量。使用 PMG-ARDL 分析，研究结果表明，汇款对环境质量有长期的负面影响。相反，研究发现，制度质量对人均生态足迹（以六个指标的平均值衡量）有积极影响。此外，结果表明，随着时间的推移，制度质量的提高减轻了汇款对抽样的撒哈拉以南非洲国家环境的不利影响。此外，确定了制度质量的门槛水平可以有效调节汇款对环境质量的不利影响。因此，大多数区域国家必须提高其制度质量，以减轻汇款对环境的负面影响。
