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JOURNAL OF POLICY MODELING
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 350-374Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2018.01.010
Keywords
Democratic development; Political institutions; Environmental quality; MENA
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are among the world's top emitters of CO2 and SO2 in per capita terms. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether investing in the democratic development of these countries is an effective tool to make the economic development in this region more environmentally compatible. Using panel data on the income-emission-democracy nexus in 17 MENA countries from 1980 to 2005, we find evidence that improvements in the democratic development of the MENA countries help to mitigate environmental problems. Our results clearly show that the quality of democratic institutions has a greater influence on local environmental problems than on global environmental issues in the MENA region. (C) 2018 The Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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