Income level and the emissions, energy, and growth nexus: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific

Le, Thai‐Ha; Quah, Euston

doi:10.1016/j.inteco.2018.03.002

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“…Analyzing the concept from the spatial dependency's dimension is essential because pollutant emissions of a country do not only play a role in its economy, they can influence other neighboring countries as well. A similar concept has been analyzed by Le and Quah [3] stating that energy usage and income seem to have a long-term association with the level of emissions in the Asia and Pacific region. However, they argued that EKC does not exist in an inverted U-shape in all countries in the selected region.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…A wide variety of studies conducted on the topic so far is mostly limited to testing the existence of EKC in the Asia region [3,19] or to limit the scope to find the monotonic effect of different variables on the pollution emissions in South and Southeast Asia [15][16][17][18] and does not proceed to incorporate spatial effects. Other than studies conducted on China [1,2,[5][6][7][8][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], no extensive research has been done on EKC with the prevalence of spatial effects in the panel of East Asia region which is a vast research gap that this study focuses on filling.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the Asian region, some studies have tested the effects of FDI, trade, and energy consumption on CO 2 emissions for the panel of Southeast Asian and South Asian countries ignoring the EKC hypothesis [15][16][17][18]. On the other hand, Le and Quah [3] investigate but could not find the evidence of the EKC hypothesis for the Asia and Pacific region. In the specific case of East Asia, Al-Mulali et al [19] have found the evidence of the EKC hypothesis but have reported an insignificant effect of trade on CO 2 emissions.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Environmental Accounting of Financial Development and Foreign Investment: Spatial Analyses of East Asia

Mahmood

Furqan²,

Bagais

2018

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This paper aspires to examine the environmental effects of financial market development (FMD), foreign direct investment (FDI), and trade openness on the CO 2 emissions per capita along with the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in six East Asian countries from 1991-2014. For this purpose, spatial econometrics is applied to consider the spillover effects from neighboring countries. The results of the study corroborate the spillover effects from neighboring countries' CO 2 emissions per capita, FMD, FDI, and trade openness, and the EKC hypothesis is proven true in this region. Local FDI inflows, trade openness, and energy intensity are found to be responsible for local environmental degradation. Local FMD has an insignificant environmental effect, but neighboring countries' FMD has contributed to the local CO 2 emissions per capita. Further, positive (negative) environmental spillover effects are found from neighboring countries' FDI (trade openness).

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Environmental Accounting of Financial Development and Foreign Investment: Spatial Analyses of East Asia

Mahmood

Furqan²,

Bagais

2018

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“…Useful insights on renewable energy also benefit the governments, policy makers, and stakeholders in the ASEAN region in dealing with economic, energy-related and environmental challenges. The EKC hypothesis and the causality between economic growth, energy consumption and CO 2 emissions were tested using a panel of ASEAN countries in previous studies (e.g., Heidari et al 2015;Le and Quah 2018;Lean and Smyth 2010;Nasreen and Anwar 2014). These studies ignored the usage of renewable energy in the context that ASEAN countries have a strong desire for such kind of energy in coming years.…”

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CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, and Economic Growth: New Evidence in the ASEAN Countries

2019

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The members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have made several attempts to adopt renewable energy targets given the economic, energy-related, environmental challenges faced by the governments, policy makers, and stakeholders. However, previous studies have focused limited attention on the role of renewable energy when testing the dynamic link between CO2 emissions, energy consumption and renewable energy consumption. As such, this study is conducted to test a common hypothesis regarding a long-run environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The paper also investigates the causal link between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, energy consumption, renewable energy, population growth, and economic growth for countries in the region. Using various time-series econometrics approaches, our analysis covers five ASEAN members (including Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand) for the 1971–2014 period where required data are available. Our results reveal no long-run relationship among the variables of interest in the Philippines and Thailand, but a relationship does exist in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The EKC hypothesis is observed in Myanmar but not in Indonesia and Malaysia. Also, Granger causality among these important variables varies considerably across the selected countries. No Granger causality among carbon emissions, energy consumption, and renewable energy consumption is reported in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Indonesia experiences a unidirectional causal effect from economic growth to renewable energy consumption in both short and long run and from economic growth to CO2 emissions and energy consumption. Interestingly, only Myanmar has a unidirectional effect from GDP growth, energy consumption, and population to the adoption of renewable energy. Policy implications have emerged based on the findings achieved from this study for each country in the ASEAN region.

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“…According to the World Bank, the forest should cover a minimum of 6% of the total land area to acquire the development objectives, but in contrast, the total land area of Pakistan's forest cover only 2.5% (Ahmed, Shahbaz, Qasim, & Long, 2015). Furthermore, our study examines the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption (EC) in the case of the long-run or the causality relationship integrating with other factors, see for example (Alkhathlan & Javid, 2013;Alshehry & Belloumi, 2015;Esso & Keho, 2016;Fei, Dong, Xue, Liang, & Yang, 2011;Javid & Sharif, 2016;Kasman & Duman, 2015;Kivyiro & Arminen, 2014;Le & Quah, 2018;Shahbaz, Hye, Tiwari, & Leitão, 2013;Shahzad, Kumar, Zakaria, & Hurr, 2017;Zhu, Duan, Guo, & Yu, 2016).…”

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The impact of climate changes on agriculture export trade in Pakistan: Evidence from time‐series analysis

2019

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Agriculture is one of the primary contributors to Pakistan's economy. However, over the last few decades, the atmospheric carbon dioxide emission has been amplified to a great extent in Pakistan. This amplification may cause climate change, global warming, and environmental mitigation in Pakistan. This paper empirically investigates the impact of CO2 emissions on the agricultural export trade of Pakistan over the period 1975–2017. Evidence suggests that climate change could be a primary cause for the decline in Pakistan's agriculture export trade; no studies have been carried out for this specific issue, particularly over time. In this paper, the empirical analysis suggests the negative coefficient of agriculture export trade with CO2 emissions subsequently decreases agriculture export trade, which leads to direct impact on Pakistan's economy. Both theoretical and empirical outcomes suggest that the adaptation of clean and green energies and technologies are the key to reduce pollution in Pakistan. Overall, the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on agriculture export trade are stronger in the long‐run dynamics, thus making the finding heterogeneous. Possible initiatives should be taken by the government of Pakistan to improve the agriculture sector and it should also introduce new policies to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide.

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Income level and the emissions, energy, and growth nexus: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific

Cited by 87 publications

References 63 publications

Environmental Accounting of Financial Development and Foreign Investment: Spatial Analyses of East Asia

Environmental Accounting of Financial Development and Foreign Investment: Spatial Analyses of East Asia

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, and Economic Growth: New Evidence in the ASEAN Countries

The impact of climate changes on agriculture export trade in Pakistan: Evidence from time‐series analysis

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