TESTING THE DYNAMIC UPSHOOT OF ENERGY, POVERTY, ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Energy access can be painstaking as a requirement for overcoming poverty and promoting 
economic progress, mounting employment opportunities, providing social services, and 
encouraging human development in general. The paper investigates the effect of testing the 
dynamic upshot of energy poverty, ecological footprint and economic progress in Nigeria 
from 1986 to 2021. Augment Dickey Fuller and Phillips Perron unit root test show that 
gross domestic product, ecological footprint per capita consumption, and electricity 
consumption are stationary at first difference while CO2 emission is stationary at level. The 
Auto regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model shows in the short run ecological footprint 
per capita consumption has a negative and statistically insignificant effect on gross 
domestic product in Nigeria CO2 emission shows positive but statistically insignificant 
effect on gross domestic product. Moreover, the long run result shows that indicates that 
ecological footprint per capita consumption has a positive but statistically insignificant 
effect on gross domestic product. Electricity consumption shows positive and statistically 
insignificant effect on gross domestic product. CO2 emission indicates negative and 
statistically insignificant effect on gross domestic product in Nigeria. The study 
recommends that Nigerian government should inject huge amount of money into the energy 
sector so that electricity supply can be increase and reached rural areas and finally 
economic growth can be achieved through multiplier effect.