Sustainable Growth-Environment Nexus in the Context of Four Developing Asian Economies: A Panel Analysis

Mowshumi Sharmin and Mohammad Tareque
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Mowshumi Sharmin: Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management, Bangladesh
Mohammad Tareque: Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management, Bangladesh

Managing Global Transitions, 2020, vol. 18, issue 3 (Fall), 237-256

Abstract: This paper has used a STIRPAT model to investigate the synergistic effect of CO2 emission, energy consumption, energy intensity, economic growth, population, urbanization and trade openness to demonstrate growth-environment nexus in four selected developing Asian economies. Taking a panel data set from Bangladesh, China, India and Indonesia this study applies Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and VEC Granger Causality/Block Exogeneity Wald Tests. The empirical results show that energy intensity, urbanization, population, and per capita GDP growth are the raison d'etre of CO2 emissions whereas trade openness is found to be negatively related to CO2 emissions. Conversely, energy consumption, urbanization, population and trade openness are positively related to per capita GDP. In addition, it also investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis and the findings substantiate an inverted U-shaped relationship. Cross-section short-run coefficients of country-level data are inquired into to check the robustness of the panel outcomes.

Keywords: EKC hypothesis; STIRPAT model; CO2 emission; urbanization; energy consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 O44 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-6935.18.237-256

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