Analysis of the nexus between Environmental quality and Economic growth

Ahmad Ilu

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Abstract: This Paper inquiries into analysis of the nexus between environmental quality and economic growth for the period 1990-2018. In an attempt to realize the major objectives of the study various researcher’s’ works on relevant studies were exhaustively reviewed. The study utilizes annual time series data for its analysis and data on Carbon emissions metric tons per capita, GDP, Energy use and Access to electricity as a percentage of total population were collected for the period under review. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model approach was applied to estimate long run and short run relationship among the aforementioned variables. Both the short run and long run levels result fairly distinct with each other that GDP is positively and insignificantly related to carbon emissions both in the short run and long run which implies that Kuznet’s Curve was not found in Nigeria, access to electricity was found to be negatively and significantly related to carbon emissions in the short run, ite in the short run.

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; GDP; Environmental Kuznet Curve; IPAT; ARDL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q47 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-01, Revised 2019-12-03
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