Environmental Protection and Economic Development in Zimbabwe

Table 1

Random-effects regression for the Zimbabwe expansion business economic activities on environmental protection.

Random-effects GLS regression			Number of obs = 600
Group variable: business group			Number of groups = 3
R-sq:			Obs per group:		Min = 6
Within	=0.611				Ave = 5
Between	=0.992				Max = 6
Overall	=0.882
Corr (u_i, X) = 0 (assumed)			Wald (chi^2) =		362.14
			Prob > chi^2 =		0.000
EnvironProt_Index	Coef	Std. err	Z		95% conf. interval
Legal entrepreneurship	15.221	0.251	15.24	0.000	12.1125	16.5662
Number of informal entrepreneurs	−48.552	0.112	−44.22	0.000	−50.22451	−43.22145
Legal mining	8.421	0.997	7.442	0.003	6.77696	9.77654
Number of illegal miners	−17.884	0.031	−16.89	0.000	−18.9877	−16.8876
Agricultural expansion in rural areas	22.147	0.037	19.77	0.002	12.22152	23.25546
Number of peri-urban illegal farmers	−6.891	0.743	−6.14	0.001	−8.78419	−5.98331
_cons	−0.224	0.151	−7.14	0.000	−1.225749	0.114522

Source: STATA.