Energy Security and the Green Growth Agenda in Africa: Exploring Trade-offs and Synergies

Energy Security and the Green Growth Agenda in Africa: Exploring Trade-offs and Synergies

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The paper examines the effect of the green growth agenda on energy security in Africa using a longitudinal data for the period 1996-2013. The study captures energy security using two basic measures; an aspect sees it as provision of environmentally sustainable energy and alternately in terms of availability/accessibility of energy. Our result shows that the effect of the green growth strategies...
 
Published at Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Volume 7
Issue 1
Pages 7
Published in 2016
 
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Akinyemi Opeyemi, Alege Philip, OsabuohÖen Evans and Ogundipe Adeyemi
AKINYEMI OPEYEMI » Dr Akinyemi is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Economics and Development Studies at Covenant University, Nigeria. She obtained her Bachelor, Masters and doctoral degrees from Covenant University in 2009, 2012 and 2017 respectively. Her main research interests include Energy Economics (specifically energy policy and environmental quality), sustainable development economics and... view full profile
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