Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228014 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/030
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
There is a glaring concern of income inequality in the light of the post-2015 global development agenda of sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially for countries that are in the south of the Sahara. There are also concerns over the present and future consequences of environmental degradation on development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study provides carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions thresholds that should be avoided in the nexus between financial development and income inequality in a panel of 39 countries in SSA over the period 2004-2014. Quantile regressions are used as an empirical strategy. The following findings are established. Financial development unconditionally decreases income inequality with an increasing negative magnitude while the interactions between financial development and CO2 emissions have the opposite effect with an increasing positive magnitude. The underlying nexuses are significant exclusively in the median and top quantiles of the income inequality distribution. CO2 emission thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for financial development to continuously reduce income inequality are 0.222, 0.200 and 0.166 metric tons per capita for the median, 75th quantile and 90th quantile of the income inequality distribution, respectively. Policy implications are discussed with particular relevance to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Subjects: 
Renewable energy
Inequality
Finance
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sustainable development
JEL: 
H10
Q20
Q30
O11
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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