MODELLING ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATION-URBANISATION NEXUS IN GHANA | Journal of Global Economics, Managem

The current study used yearly data from the World Development Indicator to simulate the urbanisation-ecological degradation nexus for Ghana from 1971 to 2014, with control variables such as ruralisation, income, trade openness, and energy consumption. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) and the Granger causality test are used to estimate the model. The findings of the study demonstrated a substantial cointegration relationship in the model estimated, as well as a steady long-term and short-term relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The feedback preposition is supported by the granger predictability test results for the causation direction. Urbanisation, ruralisation, income, trade openness, and energy consumption are not policy tools in coping with ecological degradation for the research period because the conservation hypothesis is not supported.

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