Education, methane emission and poverty in developing countries

Yogeeswari Subramaniam and Tajul Ariffin Masron

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2020, vol. 9, issue 3, 355-369

Abstract: In developing world, poor people are forced to overuse environmental resources to survive daily, and their impoverishment of the environment is expected to further impoverish them. With poverty and environmental degradation are the primary attribute of most developing countries, this study aims to show the implication of education on poverty-environmental issue in developing countries using panel data of 22 developing countries for the period of 1990–2016. Adopting autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach, the paper finds evidence substantiating the presence of emission which discharged from poverty. There is also evidence to indicate that the positive impact of poverty can be reduced if education has attained a certain high threshold level. The marginal effect displays that the impact of poverty on environmental degradation depends on education, with improvement in education helps to minimize the destruction potentially offered by the poor. Hence, policy focuses on improving various aspects of education, especially those relevant to combat poverty, can mitigate the adverse effect of poverty on emission.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2019.1689175

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