Publication Description

This study examines the relationship between carbon emissions, economic governance and economic growth based on evidence from selected East African Community countries (1996–2019). The study uses the panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) due to its suitability in handling the endogeneity bias. We test for presence of panel unit root using Pesaran's CIPS (2007) which is robust in dealing with cross-sectional dependence. Further, we examine the long-run cointegrating relationship using Kao and Johansen Fisher panel techniques and Granger non-causality between the variables under study using Dumitrescu-Hurlin (2012) test. The study results show that economic governance, carbon emissions, gross capital formation and human capital index have positive effect on economic growth. Whereas, labour force and renewable energy consumption contribute negatively to economic growth