Life expectancy in the ANZUS-BENELUX countries: The role of renewable energy, environmental pollution, economic growth and good governance

Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur; Alam, Khosrul

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2022.03.135

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“…The renewable energy use also increases the life expectancy by emitting less environmental pollution. This outcome is consistent with the outcome of Majeed et al [ 12 ], Rodriguez-Alvarez [ 13 ], and Rahman and Alam [ 68 ]. They asserted that the renewable energy significantly improve the health status through direct and indirect ways.…”

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Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Rahman

Alam

2022

BMC Public Health

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Background The outbreak of COVID-19 has alerted governments around the world, including Australia, to think seriously about the health issues. Life expectancy is one of such issues. Therefore, this study tries to reveal the effects of globalization, energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth on life expectancy at birth in Australia. Methods Using the data period of 1990–2018, a series of econometric techniques: the Dickey-Fuller generalized least square test, Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds test, fully modified ordinary least square method and the pairwise Granger causality test, are applied. Results The findings disclose that globalization, renewable energy use, information and communication technology, per capita gross domestic product, education rate, and financial development increased during this period but non-renewable energy use reduced life expectancy at birth. Unidirectional causal associations of the studied variables with life expectancy at birth are also revealed. Conclusions All the outcomes are relevant and useful for articulating an innovative policy in the health sector. The prime policy implication of this work is: the effective, efficient, and inclusive policies considering globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, information and communication technology, financial development, education rate, and economic growth should be formulated and executed for guaranteeing health status.

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Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Rahman

Alam

2022

BMC Public Health

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“…The modified Wald test, Frees test, and Wooldridge test are used to check for the above problems, respectively [84][85][86]. The test results show that the standard fixed-effects model has heteroscedasticity and correlation problems, which may cause estimation inefficiency [87]. Therefore, the estimation method is changed in the robustness test.…”

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“…With the existence of heteroscedasticity, cross-sectional dependence, and autocorrelation, the feasibility generalized least squares (FGLS) technique and Driscoll and Kraay standard error are employed [61,94]. Driscoll and Kraay standard errors are produced through weighted heteroskedasticity autocorrelation (HAC), which can effectively address the complications caused by heteroscedasticity, cross-sectional dependence, and autocorrelation [87]. The estimation results after changing the estimation methods are shown in Table 8.…”

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Does Economic Growth Lead to an Increase in Cultivated Land Pressure? Evidence from China

Wang

Hong-bo

2022

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With economic growth, people’s living standards improve, and more cultivated land is needed to meet food demand. Meanwhile, the economic growth and urban expansion in China since 1978 has led to the loss of considerable amounts of cultivated land. Thus, the contradiction between “economic growth” and “food security” becomes increasingly prominent. Studying the impact of economic growth on cultivated land population support pressure is the basis for easing this problem. This study uses the cultivated land pressure index to represent cultivated land population support pressure, and explores the relationship between economic growth and cultivated land pressure based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017. The feasibility generalized least squares estimation and the fixed effect model based on Driscoll and Kraay standard errors are used. The results show that: (1) the impact of economic growth on cultivated land pressure is an N-shaped or U-shaped curve; and (2) there are regional differences in the impact of economic growth on cultivated land pressure. The cultivated land pressure in economically developed regions and main grain production regions responds slowly to the impact of economic growth. Therefore, some policy recommendations are put forward, such as paying attention to cultivated land protection and controlling disorderly urban expansion.

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“…Table 1 provides a summary of these studies. The literature in Table 1 might be classified as follows: i) There is a consensus in the literature that environmental degradation rises infant mortality (Ecevit & Çetin, 2016;Majeed & Khan, 2019;Erdoğan et al, 2019;Shobande, 2020;Majeed & Ozturk, 2020;Omri et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2022;Tsai et al, 2022;Barua et al, 2022) and reduces life expectancy (Balan, 2016;Sirag et al, 2017;Matthew et al, 2018;Nkalu & Edeme, 2019;Erdoğan et al, 2019;Majeed & Khan, 2019;Majeed & Ozturk, 2020;Akter et al, 2020;Hossain et al, 2020;Rodriguez-Alvarez, 2021;Murthy et al, 2021;Alimi & Ajide, 2021;Chen et al, 2021;Bouchoucha, 2021;Rjoub et al, 2021;Azam et al, 2022;Omri et al, 2022;Rahman & Alam, 2022a;Arafat et al, 2022;Radmehr & Adebayo, 2022;Salehnia et al, 2022;Ibrahim, 2022;Bayar et al, 2022). Also, Mutizwa and Makochekanwa (2015) concluded that environmental degradation does not have an impact on infant mortality.…”

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“…After these studies, social, economic, environmental and policy factors that determine health status were examined in the literature (Klomp & De Haan, 2008;Asemane, Emamgholipour & Rshidian, 2015;Nicholas, Edward & Bernardin, 2016;Kafili & Ghasemzade, 2019;Osakede, 2020;Ojo Olusoji et al, 2020;Alimi & Ajide, 2021;Doucouliagos, Hennessy & Mallick, 2021;Owumı & Alfred, 2021;Ibukun, 2021). Most of the studies in the literature have concluded that environmental pollution negatively affects health status (Sirag et al, 2017;Matthew et al, 2018;Majeed & Khan, 2019;Hossain et al, 2020;Shobande, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Rahman & Alam, 2022a;Azam et al, 2022;Omri, et al, 2022). On the contrary, some of the previous studies concluded that environmental protection expenditure improved environmental quality (Farzanegan & Mennel, 2012;Bostan et al, 2016;He et al, 2018;Huang, 2018;Basoglu & Uzar, 2019).…”

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How Do Environmental Protection Expenditures Affect Health Status? Evidence From Panel Quantile Regression

Barak

Tunc

2022

Kafkas Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

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The relationship between environment and health status has attracted intensive attention in recent years. However, limited studies have focused on environmental protection expenditure on health status. This study empirically tests the links of environmental protection expenditure with health status for 20 European countries over the period 1995-2019. For empirical analysis, this study used panel quantile regression. The empirical results show that while environmental protection expenditure, GDP, and education help to ameliorate health status, CO2 emissions worse health status. Hence, efficient environmental protection expenditure and environmental policies must align with strategies to improve health status.

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Life expectancy in the ANZUS-BENELUX countries: The role of renewable energy, environmental pollution, economic growth and good governance

Cited by 33 publications

References 54 publications

Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Effects of globalization, energy consumption and ICT on health status in Australia: the role of financial development and education

Does Economic Growth Lead to an Increase in Cultivated Land Pressure? Evidence from China

How Do Environmental Protection Expenditures Affect Health Status? Evidence From Panel Quantile Regression

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