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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/18/050
Verlag: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Zusammenfassung: 
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to whic h firms' adoption of environmental protection policies affect their performances. We use firm-level data of 842 firms (447 for Nigeria and 395 for Ghana) distributed across different regions of both countries for our descriptive and econometric estimations. We find, among other things, that firms' adoption of internal policies on environmental protection is dismally low in both Nigeria (32 percent) and Ghana (17 percent), with policies focused on reducing solid (38 percent, Nigeria; and 35 percent, Ghana), gaseous (22 percent, Nigeria; and 44 percent, Ghana), and liquid (24 percent, Nigeria; and 14 percent, Ghana) pollution. Training appears to be an important intervention that can help improve firms' adopt ion of such policies. We also found that firms' adoption and implementation of environmental protection policies significantly improve their performance.
Schlagwörter: 
Environment
Green Industrialization
Performance
Pollution
Small Businesses
West Africa
JEL: 
H32
L25
Q52
Q53
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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