Investigating the non-linearity between national income and environmental pollution: international evidence of Kuznets curve

Barra, Cristian; Zotti, Roberto

doi:10.1007/s10018-017-0189-2

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“…The empirical validity of this premise is inconclusive. While some studies have been able to demonstrate the existence of an EKC in some regions or countries (Apergis and Ozturk, 2015;Jebli et al, 2016;Hanif and Gago-de Santos, 2017;Barra and Zotti, 2018), other authors find mixed evidence between the expansion of industrial production and environmental degradation (Shuai et al, 2017;Luo et al, 2017). Even some papers find no evidence for such a hypothesis (Xu, 2018;Baek, 2015;Zilio and Caraballo, 2014).…”

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Economic growth, economic complexity, and carbon dioxide emissions: The case of Colombia

Laverde-Rojas

Guevara-Fletcher

Murillo

2021

Heliyon

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This paper aims to validate the hypothesis of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for Colombia, introducing the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) into the analysis as a differentiating element of production volumes. We use a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to corroborate if there is a long-term relationship between the variables covering the period between 1971-2014. Also, we test the robustness of the results using three different techniques: Dynamic Least Squares, Fully Modified Least Squares, and Canonical Cointegration Regression. The results show that for a developing country like Colombia, the EKC does not exist, and does not yet benefit from increases in economic complexity. Arguably, the country has several hurdles to overcome before achieving the environmental benefits of increased product sophistication. Some of them could be related to the country's own productive and institutional rigidities, which opens the space for public policy intervention.

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Economic growth, economic complexity, and carbon dioxide emissions: The case of Colombia

Laverde-Rojas

Guevara-Fletcher

Murillo

2021

Heliyon

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“…Even though the EKC argues that the relationship between economic activity and environmental degradation has an inverted U-shape, there has been empirical evidence to the contrary. Many studies have supported the EKC [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], but some have not [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. Further, several studies have found mixed results (supporting the EKC hypothesis for some countries/pollutants but not for other countries/pollutants) [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] (see Table 1).…”

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Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: an empirical study for East African countries

Beyene

Kotosz

2019

International Journal of Environmental Studies

129

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The green economy aims to achieve economic growth and development without an adverse effect on the environment. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis explains the relationship between economic activity and environmental degradation. Using the EKC hypothesis as a theoretical framework, this study tested the EKC hypothesis for 12 East African countries using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach for the period from 1990 to 2013. The result shows that the relationship between per capita income and CO 2 emissions (a proxy for environmental degradation) is bell shaped and thus is an extended version of the original inverted U-shaped curve relationship between economic activities and environmental degradation. Hence, one can conclude that the economic activities in East African countries do not lead to CO 2 emissions. Therefore, environmental conservation policies, technological advancement and modern industrial policies are required to make the economic growth of East African countries effective in reducing CO 2 emissions.

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“…For this particular environmental measure, an EKC was corroborated in the studies of Holtz-Eakin and Selden (1995), Galeotti and Lanza (1999), Heil and Selden (2001), Cole (2004), Galeotti et al (2006), andParajuli et al (2019), among others, in contradiction with the results obtained in Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992), Galeotti and Lanza (2001), York et al (2003), and Nutakor et al (2020), for example. Other researches such as Sengupta (1996) and Martinez-Zarzoso and Bengochea-Morancho (2004) find a cubic N-shaped relationship, whereas Barra and Zotti (2018) points out that preliminary evidence validates the Kuznets's hypothesis, although this relationship turned out to be misleading once the issue of (non)-stationarity has been taking into account.…”

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Semiparametric Approach with Cross-Sectional Dependence

Soberón

D’Hers

2020

JRFM

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This paper proposes a new approach to examine the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic developing. In particular, we propose to test the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for a panel of 24 OECD countries and 32 non-OECD countries by developing a more flexible estimation technique which enables to account for functional form misspecification, cross-sectional dependence, and heterogeneous relationships among variables, simultaneously. We propose a new nonparametric estimator that extends the well-known Common Correlated Effect (CCE) approach from a fully parametric framework to a semiparametric panel data model. Our results corroborates that the nature and validity of the income–pollution relationship based on the EKC hypothesis depends on the model assumptions about the functional form specification. For all the countries analyzed, the proposed semiparametric estimator leads to non-monotonically increasing or decreasing relationships for CO2 emissions, depending on the level of economic development of the country.

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Investigating the non-linearity between national income and environmental pollution: international evidence of Kuznets curve

Cited by 46 publications

References 72 publications

Economic growth, economic complexity, and carbon dioxide emissions: The case of Colombia

Economic growth, economic complexity, and carbon dioxide emissions: The case of Colombia

Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: an empirical study for East African countries

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Semiparametric Approach with Cross-Sectional Dependence

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