TITLE:
Effects of Institutional Quality on Environmental Protection in CEMAC Countries
AUTHORS:
Maxime Rodrigue Sah
KEYWORDS:
Institutional Quality, Environmental Protection, Panel, CEMAC
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.12 No.5,
May
8,
2021
ABSTRACT: The objective of this research is to highlight the effects
of institutional quality on environmental protection in the countries of the Economic
and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) over the period from 1996 to 2017.
The analysis is carried out using dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) techniques
to achieve this objective. The estimates are made from data from the World Bank’s
World Development Indicators database. After applying these techniques, the results
show that, the quality of institutions is a factor in improving environmental protection
in the CEMAC countries. These results support the need for CEMAC countries to clean
up their institutional arrangements by improving anti-corruption mechanisms, regulatory
compliance, and government effectiveness, and to implement legal and institutional
reforms to ensure that they have strong institutions to address environmental issues
in this geographic area.