 Impact of Economic and Financial Development on Environmental Degradation: Evidence from Small Island Developing States (SIDS)Boopendra Seetanah, Raja Vinesh Sannassee, Sheereen Fauzel, Y. Soobaruth, Giancarlo Giudici and Huy Pham Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2019, vol. 55, issue 2, 308-322 Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of economic and financial development (FD) on environmental degradation (ED) for a sample of 12 selected small island developing states for the period 2000–2016 using a panel vector autoregressive model which accounts for the issue of dynamism and endogeneity. Results from the long-run cointegration analysis confirmed that GDP per capita has a negative and significant impact on emissions implying that higher degree of economic development decreases the ED for our sample of island economies. The smaller long-run income elasticity as compared to the short run validates the environment Kuznets curve hypothesis. Although an insignificant impact of FD on CO2 emissions is reported, the joint effect of economic and FD on the environment indicates that FD will have an affirmative influence on the environment with island economies attaining a relatively good income level as well. Date: 2019 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:55:y:2019:i:2:p:308-322 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1519696 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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