Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298251 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/060
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Motivated by the difficulty of ensuring gender equality and the chaotic state of democracy, we analyze the effects of gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental policy performance. The study uses a panel of 45 African countries over the period 2012-2018 and employs the method of moments by quantile regression. The results show that, gender political inclusion and democracy positively affect environmental performance in all quantiles. These positive effects tend to be stronger at higher quantiles. The magnitude is larger for gender political inclusion. When performance is decomposed into the sub-indices of environmental health and ecosystem vitality, positive effects of gender political inclusion and democracy are observed in all quantiles. The effects are larger for the gender dimension than for the democracy dimension, regardless of the sub-index used.
Subjects: 
Gender political inclusion
democracy
environmental performance
regression quantile method of moments
Africa
JEL: 
J13
Q56
C31
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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