Public expenditure for environmental protection increased with support to sustainable energy

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Sustainable Energy

Distributional impact of public expenditure on human development in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 1683-1693
Author(s):  
Richardson Kojo Edeme ◽  
Chigozie Nelson Nkalu ◽  
Innocent A. Ifelunini
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marginal Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment Methodology ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Distributional Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development, energy, housing, environmental protection and portable water resources are employed as predictors of human development. The result reveals that expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact on human development. In contrast, the marginal impact of energy, housing and environmental protection is negative. Among the sectors, education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources expenditure has positive marginal impact while energy, housing and environmental protection have decreasing marginal impact on human development. Design/methodology/approach Panel approach. Findings The result reveals that expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact on human development. Originality/value A panel approach is used to investigate whether expenditure on education, health, agriculture, rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact on human development.

scholarly journals Public expenditure and human development in Nigeria in the last decade, composition and distributional impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richardson Kojo Edeme ◽  
Chigozie Nelson Nkalu
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
State Level ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Marginal Impact ◽  
Distributional Impacts

Beyond the country-level impact, this study evaluates public expenditure in Nigeria in the last decade based on composition and distributional impacts on human development at the state-level considering education, health, agriculture and rural development water resources energy, housing and environmental protection. Using data generated from 20 states from 2007-2017, the empirical analysis indicates that the efficacy of education, health, agriculture and rural development and water resources in improving human development is greater than that of energy, housing and environmental protection expenditure. More interestingly, the positive effect of capital expenditure is mitigated by increased recurrent expenditure. The combination of these factors strongly reduces the capability of public expenditure to foster human development. Based on the distributional impact assessment model, education, health, agriculture and rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact while energy, housing and environmental protection has negative marginal impact. Together, these results further advance the case for improving expenditure on the components and sectors that enhances human development. In other words, the public policy plays a great role in human development expenditure in Nigeria.

scholarly journals An Action Research on the Long-Term Implementation of an Engineering-centered PjBL of Sustainable Energy in a Rural Middle School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Sung Chen ◽  
Jing-Wen Lin
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ocean Current ◽  
Power Generators ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
And Mathematics

(1) Background: Due to the high proportion of disadvantaged students in a rural school in Taiwan and the gap between students’ concepts and practices of environmental protection and sustainable energy, four science and mathematics teachers in this school planned an engineering-centered PjBL of sustainable energy curriculum in a Makers Club to enhance students’ creativity, engineering skills, practices of environmental protection and sustainable energy, and learning attitudes; (2) Methods: This study is four-year action research. Teachers and students initiated the idea from rebuilding an old fan in a classroom; (3) Results: The students in the Makers Club improved their engineering skills and created various green-power generation devices (evolved from ventilation ball generator, hydropower, ocean current power generators to tiny, 3D-printing wind power generators). They turned environmental protection and sustainable energy concepts into actions during practices and won awards from science and engineering fairs every year. This creative and supportive atmosphere spread from the club to the whole school and improved the students’ practices of environmental protection and learning attitudes after long-term implementation; (4) Conclusions: The design principles of the engineering-centered PjBL of sustainable energy curriculum played a critical role and were outlined at the end of the study.

scholarly journals Assessment of municipal environmental protection expenditure: Case study in the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 2769-2777
Author(s):  
Jana Soukopová ◽  
Eduard Bakoš
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Economic Tools ◽  
The City

Local authorities need simple economic tools and methodology how to evaluate public expenditure efficiency. There are a lot of ways for measuring efficiency of public expenditure however methods or economic tools which get actual information about efficiency of current public spending are rare. The paper presents new methodology for evaluating current municipal environmental protection expenditures based on a weighted assessment of multiple economic, social and environmental criteria. This methodology has issued from OECD methodology however it is a more complex tool and addresses the three pillars of sustainable development and following interdisciplinary approaches of Environmental Mainstreaming. The paper presents also case study, where is investigated environmental protection expenditure evaluation in the city of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic. The results of this case study show the correct state of expenditure efficiency in the city of Brno and indicate possible improvements applicable for new investment to environmental protection and sustainable development.

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