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Trust and the willingness to contribute to environmental goods in selected African countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2014

Urbain Thierry Yogo
Urbain Thierry Yogo*
Affiliation:
Université d'Auvergne, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France. Emails: urbain_thierry.yogo@udamail.fr; yogout@yahoo.fr
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Abstract

Using data from the World Value Survey for the period 1981–2007, this paper shows that the level of trust is positively linked to the willingness to contribute to environmental goods in selected African countries. The results are robust to possible errors in measuring trust, to the presence of various controls, and the potential endogeneity bias. These findings complement and extend the existing literature in the sense that they provide evidence on the importance of trust in improving the collective management of natural resources in Africa.

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Research Article
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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 650 - 672
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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