The repercussions of foreign direct investment, renewable energy and health expenditure on environmental decay? An econometric analysis of B&amp;RI countries

Khan, Anwar; Hussain, Jamal; Bano, Sadia; Chenggang, Yang

doi:10.1080/09640568.2019.1692796

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“…This outcome indicates that there exists no convergence as the positive coefficient indicates a drift. This estimate confirms findings by Abid (2017), Farooq et al (2020), Khan et al (2020), Asongu and Odhiambo (2020) and Adams et al (2020). In the short run, we observed that policy and institutions for environmental sustainability enhances environmental quality, specifically, decreases carbon emissions and natural resource depletion, in models 1 and 2.…”

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“…The coefficient indicates that a one-percent increase in economic growth will deteriorate environmental quality by about 1.26 percent in Model 1, that is 0.61 percent and 0.07 points in Model 2 and Model 3, respectively, which are all significant at 1% significance level. The negative effect is in line with findings by Bokpin (2017) whereas the positive impact on carbon emissions conforms with studies by Gunarto (2020), Aluko and Obalade (2020), Khan et al (2020), Ganda (2020) and Hao et al (2020).…”

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“…A significant amount of literature (Naz et al 2019;Shahbaz et al 2019;Udemba 2019;Ma et al 2019;Ganda 2020;Farooq et al 2020) points to the fact that FDI deteriorates environmental quality (i.e., increasing Co2 emission). However, other scholars (Kivyiro and Arminen 2014;Shahbaz et al 2015;Saud et al 2019;Hao et al 2020;Khan et al 2020;Ahmad et al 2020) also argue that FDI can improve environmental quality (that is, reduce Co2 emissions), making the debate on the subject matter still imperative to help policymakers and other stakeholders settle on policies to improve environmental quality.…”

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Foreign Direct Investments and Environmental Quality in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Merits of Policy and Institutions for Environmental Sustainability

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Environmental concerns in today’s world cannot be overemphasised. These concerns have interested policymakers and researchers to delve into the causes in order to help mitigate environmental deterioration and support policies and institutions for environmental sustainability. This study, therefore, investigates the association between foreign direct investment (FDI) and environmental quality, taking into account policies and institutions for environmental sustainability across 23 Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) countries. Employing the generalised method of moment (system-GMM) for the analysis, the results revealed, among others things, that FDI improves environmental quality in the long run, whereas in the short run, FDI diminishes environmental quality when interacted with policies and institutions for environmental sustainability. Furthermore, policies and institutions for environmental sustainability and domestic investment improve environmental quality in SSA in both the long and short run. The study, thus, concludes that policies and institutions for environmental sustainability in SSA are important as they improve environmental quality as well as complement FDI to improve environmental quality in the long run. The study further establishes that domestic investment is important to improve environmental quality in SSA. The study recommends policies for improving environmental quality to policymakers and stakeholders in SSA.

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Foreign Direct Investments and Environmental Quality in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Merits of Policy and Institutions for Environmental Sustainability

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“…This negative result leans support to the pollution haven hypothesis that most international businesses in developing countries are pollution-intensive, as such foreign direct investment and trade reduce green growth in developing. These results are consistent with Khan et al (2020) and Tawiah et al (2021). Third the results of institutional quality and energy-related factors are similar for both developed and developing countries and consistent with the main results as presented in Table 4.…”

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Determinants of green growth in developed and developing countries

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Adedoyin

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Considering the need for environmental sustainability while ensuring economic growth and development by 2030, this study uses data on 123 developed and developing countries to examine factors that influence green growth. The empirical results show that economic development positively influences green growth. However, trade openness is detrimental to green growth. Regarding energy-related factors, we find energy consumption negatively affecting green growth, but renewable energy consumption significantly improves green growth. In further analysis, we find that the influence of these factors differs between developed and developing countries. The result implies that countries at a different development level will require different strategies in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. The results are robust to alternative identification strategies such as the System Generalised Method of Movement, which accounts for potential endogeneity.

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“…Buildings, transportation, and equipment involved in health care systems improve from energy efficiency, CO 2 emissions, and waste points of view. Khan et al ( 2020a ) noted that there could be two ways higher health expenditures could reduce CO 2 emissions. Direct effect (Halkos and Paizanos 2013 ) that high health expenditures have redistribution effects, which raise people’s income which in turn raises the demand for a cleaner environment.…”

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The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

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Khan

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Continuous economic growth and the rise in energy consumption are linked with environmental pollution. Demand for health care expenditure increased after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is interesting in modeling the nexus between public and private health expenditure, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth. To this end, the present study analyzed the nexus between public and private health care expenditure, economic growth, and environmental pollution for 36 Asian countries for the period 1991–2017. FMOLS, GMM, and quantile regression analysis confirm the EKC hypothesis in Asia. Besides, FMOLS and quantile regressions reached the reducing effects of government and private health expenditures on CO 2 emissions. While quantile regression results show that public and private health expenditures can mitigate CO 2 emissions; however, these results differ for various levels of CO 2 . Findings of quantile regression show a significant impact of both public and private health expenditures in reducing CO 2 at the 50 th and 75 th quantiles but results are insignificant for the 25 th quantile. Overall, the paper concludes that both government and private health sectors’ expenditures caused CO 2 emissions to decrease in Asia and that the negative impact of the private health sector on CO 2 emissions is greater than that of the government health sector. The concluding remark is that the higher the health spending, the higher the environmental quality will be in Asia. Hence, the health administrators need to increase public and private health expenditures with an effective cost-service and energy-efficient management approach to reach sustainable health services and a sustainable environment in Asia. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-13639-6.

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The repercussions of foreign direct investment, renewable energy and health expenditure on environmental decay? An econometric analysis of B&RI countries

Cited by 91 publications

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Foreign Direct Investments and Environmental Quality in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Merits of Policy and Institutions for Environmental Sustainability

Foreign Direct Investments and Environmental Quality in Sub-Sahara Africa: The Merits of Policy and Institutions for Environmental Sustainability

Determinants of green growth in developed and developing countries

The roles of economic growth and health expenditure on CO2 emissions in selected Asian countries: a quantile regression model approach

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