Environmental pollution policy of small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana: extent and impact

Efobi, Uchenna and Belmondo, Tanankem and Orkoh, Emmanuel and Atata, Scholastica Ngozi and Akinyemi, Opeyemi and Beecroft, Ibikun (2018) Environmental pollution policy of small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana: extent and impact. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. ISSN 0944-1344

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Abstract

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms’ operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to which firms’ adoption of environmental protection policies affect their performances. We use firm-level data of 842 firms (447 for Nigeria and 395 for Ghana) distributed across different regions of both countries for our descriptive and econometric estimations. We find, among other things, that firms’ adoption of internal policies on environmental protection is dismally low in both Nigeria (32%) and Ghana (17%), with policies focused on reducing solid (38%, Nigeria; and 35%, Ghana), gaseous (22%, Nigeria; and 44%, Ghana), and liquid (24%, Nigeria; and 14%, Ghana) pollution. Training appears to be an important intervention that can help improve firms’ adoption of such policies. We also found that firms’ adoption and implementation of environmental protection policies significantly improve their performance.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Environment . Green industrialization . Performance . Pollution . Small businesses .West Africa
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2019 10:00
Last Modified:	17 Jan 2019 07:20
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/12276

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