Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis - during the period from 1975 to 2017 in Egypt

Mohamed A. Saber

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2022, vol. 16, issue 5/6, 689-708

Abstract: The study aimed to test the hypothesis of the environmental Kuznets curve in Egypt. It analyses the relationship of economic growth, measured by per capita GDP, and environmental pollution, measured by per capita carbon dioxide emissions during the period of 1975-2017 in Egypt. ARDL methodology was used to explain the relationship between the variables. The study found that the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis applies to the Egyptian economy and that there is a positive relationship between energy use and environmental pollution, while the relationship between urbanisation and environmental pollution was an inverse relationship. The relationship of trade openness to environmental pollution was not significant. The model's validity was validated for estimation using the serial correlation LM test, the heteroskedasticity test, and the histogram-normality test of residuals using the Jaque-Bera test.

Keywords: Kuznets environmental curve; economic growth; ARDL approach; environmental pollution; increase production; histogram-normality test; inverse relationship; Egypt. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=125490 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbsre:v:16:y:2022:i:5/6:p:689-708

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Business and Systems Research from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().