Trade off between environment, energy consumption and human development: Do levels of economic development matter?

Tran, Nguyen Van; Tran, Quyet Van; Thuy, Linh Thi; Dinh, Linh Hong; Thu, Hà Thị

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.02.042

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“…Therefore, FDI leads to environmental degradation, which seriously affects the health and well-being and life quality of people in those countries. Our findings do not support the papers of Wang et al (2020) (Wang et al, 2020) and Tran et al (2019) (Tran et al, 2019), who put forward the positive association between human development and foreign direct investment but agree with Khan et al (2019) (Khan et al, 2019), Mustafa et al (2017) (Mustafa et al, 2017), andGorus et al (2019) (Gorus and Aslan, 2019).…”

Section: Lower Middle-income Countriescontrasting

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“…Therefore, the process of industrialization helps promote human development in lower middle-income countries. This result was supported by studies undertaken in relation to BRICS countries by Wang et al (2020) (Wang et al, 2020) and in 90 countries over the period 1990-2014 by Tran et al (2019) (Tran et al, 2019). However, FDI has a negative impact on HDI at the 1% significance level, which means that foreign direct investment reduces the level of human development in lower-middleincome countries.…”

Section: Lower Middle-income Countriesmentioning

confidence: 63%

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“…Authors had tried to estimate aggregating weights with methodologies such as factor analysis or principal component methods [12][13][14]. Third, scholars have also begun to examine the factors that may be related to the environment [1,15,16], among which economic factors receive the most attention [17]. Economy is one of the aspects of human development and the degree of economic development also means the state of human development [18].…”

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“…The overall environmental, health and economic conditions of low HDI nations are far below than of the high ones. Thus, the impact of HDI on sustainable development is substantial and interesting to explore for developing nations [17].…”

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Trade off between environment, energy consumption and human development: Do levels of economic development matter?

Cited by 83 publications

References 47 publications

Effect of Economic Indicators, Renewable Energy Consumption and Human Development on Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Data of Selected Countries

Effect of Economic Indicators, Renewable Energy Consumption and Human Development on Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Data of Selected Countries

A Research on the Relationship between Environmental Sustainability Management and Human Development

Incorporating Environmental Pollution and Human Development in the Energy-Growth Nexus: A Novel Long Run Investigation for Pakistan

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