Reduced Inequalities
About
Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people’s sense of fulfillment and self-worth.
The incomes of the poorest 40 percent of the population had been growing faster than the national average in most countries. However, emerging yet inconclusive evidence suggests that COVID-19 may have put a dent in this positive trend of falling within-country inequality.
The pandemic has caused the largest rise in between-country inequality in three decades. Reducing both within- and between-country inequality requires equitable resource distribution, investing in education and skills development, implementing social protection measures, combating discrimination, supporting marginalized groups and fostering international cooperation for fair trade and financial systems.
Inequalities based on income, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, class, ethnicity, religion and opportunity continue to persist across the world. Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people’s sense of fulfillment and self-worth. This, in turn, can breed crime, disease and environmental degradation.
We cannot achieve sustainable development and make the planet better for all if people are excluded from the chance for a better life.
Publications
Acheampong, A. O., Adebayo, T. S., Dzator, J., & Koomson, I. (2023). Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques. Journal of Economic Inequality. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09567-9
Adebayo, T. S. (2022a). Environmental consequences of fossil fuel in Spain amidst renewable energy consumption: a new insights from the wavelet-based Granger causality approach. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 29(7), 579-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2054877
Adebayo, T. S. (2022b). Exploring the heterogeneous impact of technological innovation on income inequality: Formulating the SDG policies for the BRICS-T economies. Energy and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958305X221145926
Adebayo, T. S., Ağa, M., Agyekum, E. B., Kamel, S., & El-Naggar, M. F. (2022). Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 1068379. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1068379
Adebayo, T. S., Pata, U. K., & Akadiri, S. S. (2022). A comparison of CO2 emissions, load capacity factor, and ecological footprint for Thailand’s environmental sustainability. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02810-9
Appiah, M., Gyamfi, B. A., Adebayo, T. S., & Bekun, F. V. (2023). Do financial development, foreign direct investment, and economic growth enhance industrial development? Fresh evidence from Sub-Sahara African countries. Portuguese Economic Journal, 22(2), 203-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10258-022-00207-0
Asiedu, B. A. (2021). Do international investment contribute to environmental pollution? Evidence from 20 African countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(31), 41627-41637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14677-w
Barut, A., Citil, M., Ahmed, Z., Sinha, A., & Abbas, S. (2023). How do economic and financial factors influence green logistics? A comparative analysis of E7 and G7 nations. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(1), 1011-1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22252-0
Bekun, F. V., Gyamfi, B. A., Bamidele, R. O., & Udemba, E. N. (2022). Tourism-induced emission in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Study for Oil-Producing and Non-oil-Producing countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(27), 41725-41741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18262-z
Beton Kalmaz, D., & Adebayo, T. S. (2023). Does foreign direct investment moderate the effect of economic complexity on carbon emissions? Evidence from BRICS nations. International Journal of Energy Sector Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-01-2023-0014
Du, L., Jiang, H., Adebayo, T. S., Awosusi, A. A., & Razzaq, A. (2022). Asymmetric effects of high-tech industry and renewable energy on consumption-based carbon emissions in MINT countries. Renewable Energy, 196, 1269-1280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.028
Fakher, H. A., Ahmed, Z., Alvarado, R., & Murshed, M. (2022). Exploring renewable energy, financial development, environmental quality, and economic growth nexus: new evidence from composite indices for environmental quality and financial development. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(46), 70305-70322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20709-w
Fofack, A. D., & Akendung, J. N. (2020). The Root Causes of Migration:Why Africans Leave their Homes. African Human Mobility Review, 6(2), 102-129. https://doi.org/10.14426/ahmr.v6i2.802
Fofack, A. D., Aker, A., & Rjoub, H. (2020). Assessing the post-quantitative easing surge in financial flows to developing and emerging market economies. Journal of Applied Economics, 23(1), 89-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2019.1710421
Fonchamnyo, D. C., Dinga, G. D., & Ngum, V. C. (2021). Revisiting the nexus between domestic investment, foreign direct investment and external debt in SSA countries: PMG-ARDL approach. African Development Review, 33(3), 479-491. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12593
Ghazali, S., Azadi, H., Janečková, K., Sklenička, P., Kurban, A., & Cakir, S. (2021). Indigenous knowledge about climate change and sustainability of nomadic livelihoods: understanding adaptability coping strategies. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23(11), 16744-16768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01332-0
Gyamfi, B. A. (2022). Consumption-based carbon emission and foreign direct investment in oil-producing Sub-Sahara African countries: the role of natural resources and urbanization. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(9), 13154-13166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16509-3
Gyamfi, B. A., Adebayo, T. S., Bekun, F. V., Agyekum, E. B., Kumar, N. M., Alhelou, H. H., & Al-Hinai, A. (2021). Beyond environmental Kuznets curve and policy implications to promote sustainable development in Mediterranean. Energy Reports, 7, 6119-6129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.09.056
Gyamfi, B. A., Bein, M. A., Udemba, E. N., & Bekun, F. V. (2021). Investigating the pollution haven hypothesis in oil and non-oil sub-Saharan Africa countries: Evidence from quantile regression technique. Resources Policy, 73, Article 102119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102119
Gyamfi, B. A., Bein, M. A., Udemba, E. N., & Bekun, F. V. (2022). Renewable energy, economic globalization and foreign direct investment linkage for sustainable development in the E7 economies: revisiting the pollution haven hypothesis. International Social Science Journal, 72(243), 91-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12301
Gyamfi, B. A., Q. Agozie, D., A. Bein, M., Bekun, F. V., & Fatai Adedoyin, F. (2022). Unlocking the investment impact of biomass energy utilization on environmental degradation for an isolated island. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 16(4), 585-604. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-11-2020-0007
Inal, G., Ariss, A. A., & Forson, C. (2013). Self-employment as a career strategy for ethnic minorities: The case of Turkish-Cypriots in Britain. Journal of Management Development, 32(2), 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621711311305674
Iweze, C., Akinsola, G. D., & Olanrewaju, V. O. (2020). DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN TURKEY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM ARDL APPROACH. Asian Development Policy Review, 8(4), 319-329. https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.107.2020.84.319.329
Koldaş, U. (2012). Political economy of internal/external migration and skilled labour mobility within the Israeli labour market. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 8(4), 503-519. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2012.047084
Musah, M., Boateng, F., Kumah, E. A., & Adebayo, T. S. (2022). Financial flows and environmental quality in ECOWAS member states: accounting for residual cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02755-z
Nathaniel, S. P., Solomon, C. J., Ajide, K. B., Ahmed, Z., & Fakher, H. A. (2023). Striving towards carbon neutrality in emerging markets: the combined influence of international tourism and eco-friendly technology. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 30(7), 760-775. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2195831
Odugbesan, J. A., & Adebayo, T. S. (2020). The symmetrical and asymmetrical effects of foreign direct investment and financial development on carbon emission: evidence from Nigeria. SN Applied Sciences, 2(12), Article 1982. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-03817-5
Odugbesan, J. A., Aghazadeh, S., Rjoub, H., Dantas, R. M., Correia, A. B., Rita, J. X., & Mata, M. N. (2021). Modeling the determinants of sustainable green growth in the menat region: Using the dcce-mg approach. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 19(6), 4881-4901. https://doi.org/10.15666/aeer/1906_48814901
Odugbesan, J. A., Ike, G., Olowu, G., & Adeleye, B. N. (2022). Investigating the causality between financial inclusion, financial development and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa economies: The mediating role of foreign direct investment. Journal of Public Affairs, 22(3), Article e2569. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2569
Ohajionu, U. C., Gyamfi, B. A., Haseki, M. I., & Bekun, F. V. (2022). Assessing the linkage between energy consumption, financial development, tourism and environment: evidence from method of moments quantile regression. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(20), 30004-30018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17920-6
Qabaja, M., & Tenekeci, G. (2023). Nexus between construction sector and economic indicators for Turkey and European Union evidenced by panel data analysis. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 30(5), 1978-2007. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-10-2021-0927
Radoine, H., Bajja, S., Chenal, J., & Ahmed, Z. (2022). Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, Article 1012007. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1012007
Rjoub, H., Abu Alrub, A., Soyer, K., & Hamdan, S. (2015). The impact of fdi inflows on economic growth: Evidence from Latin American countries. Proceedings of the 25th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Innovation Vision 2020: From Regional Development Sustainability to Global Economic Growth, IBIMA 2015,
Rjoub, H., Aga, M., Alrub, A. A., & Bein, M. (2017). Financial reforms and determinants of FDI: Evidence from landlocked countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Economies, 5(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies5010001
Ullah, S., Luo, R., Adebayo, T. S., & Kartal, M. T. (2023). Paving the ways toward sustainable development: the asymmetric effect of economic complexity, renewable electricity, and foreign direct investment on the environmental sustainability in BRICS-T. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03085-4
Williams, M., Abu Alrub, A., & Aga, M. (2022). Ecological Footprint, Economic Uncertainty and Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa: Evidence From Asymmetric Cointegration and Dynamic Multipliers in a Nonlinear ARDL Approach. SAGE Open, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221094607
Zhang, Q., Adebayo, T. S., Ibrahim, R. L., & Al-Faryan, M. A. S. (2023). Do the asymmetric effects of technological innovation amidst renewable and nonrenewable energy make or mar carbon neutrality targets? International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 30(1), 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2022.2120559