...Kien Trung Tran; Mai Ngoc Tran Purpose This study investigates whether and to what extent government effectiveness moderates the relationship between urbanization and CO₂ emissions worldwide. Understanding how governance can mitigate urbanization’s environmental impacts is increasingly...

... unanswered. This paper contributes to literature on “resource curse hypothesis” by examining the role of government effectiveness in influencing the impact of gas resource rent on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted the Cobb-Douglass production and incorporated gas resource...