Climate finance, institutions and innovation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

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https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.49.2.6

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climate finance, innovation, institutions, climate mitigation, climate adaptation, Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

To enhance climate finance’s effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and explore how it can be deployed to boost innovation, this study has explored the effect of climate finance combined with institutional quality on innovation while emphasizing the multidimensional measurement approach to innovation. Using data from twenty-three (23) countries in SSA spanning the period 2011 to 2022 and the system Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) estimator, the results from the study show a negative and significant effect of climate finance on innovation in SSA. Also, we found that institutional quality has a positive and significant effect on innovation. Further, we realized from the conditional effect results that when the level of institutions in SSA is highly effective, the positive effect of climate finance on innovation is magnified. Given these findings, this study recommends that policies to improve climate finance in SSA should be pursued simultaneously with policies promoting strong institutions.

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2025-06-08

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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2025)

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Climate finance, institutions and innovation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2025). Public Sector Economics - Submission Site, 49(2), 309-337. https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.49.2.6