Energy Pricing Policy and Environmental Quality in Nigeria: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Approach
The fuel subsidy policy as a policy had been argued to hamper efforts at environmental sustainability. Thus, this study investigates the extent to which the removal of fuel subsidy influences the level of carbon emissions in Nigeria over a 5 year period. It adopts the recursive dynamic version of the partnership for economic policy computable general equilibrium model based on the 2006 Nigerian...
Published at International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
Volume 7
Issue 1
Pages 268-276
Published in 2017
Opeyemi Akinyemi, Philip. O. Alege, Oluseyi. O. Ajayi, Henry Okodua