Do industrialization, economic growth and globalization processes influence the ecological footprint and healthcare expenditures? Fresh insights based on the STIRPAT model for countries with the highest healthcare expenditures

Yang, Bo; Usman, Muhammad; Jahanger, Atif

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.07.020

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“…Moreover, the technique effect demonstrates that globalization could influence the environment through many channels. For instance, technology (eco-friendly) shifts from one country to another due to globalization (Yang et al, 2021c). However, other empirical studies have described a negative effect of globalization on environmental quality (Yang et al, 2021b).…”

Section: The Globalization-economic Growth-environment Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Effects of Economic Complexity and the Transition to a Clean Energy Pattern on Ecological Footprint From the Indian Perspective

Wan

Jahanger

Usman

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The study explores the association between economic complexity, globalization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on the ecological footprint in the case of India from 1990–2018. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) is applied to measure the long-run elasticity, while the vector error correction model (VECM) is applied to classify the causal path. The empirical findings demonstrate that economic complexity, globalization process, and renewable energy consumption play a dominant role in minimizing environmental degradation. In contrast, economic growth and non-renewable energy consumption are more responsible for increasing the pollution level in both the short and long run. Furthermore, the VECM outcomes disclose that there is long-run causality between ecological footprint and economic complexity. Moreover, the empirical outcomes are robust to various robustness checks performed for analysis to the consistency of our main results. The Indian government/policymakers should encourage a more environmentally friendly production process and eco-friendly technologies in exports to minimize environmental degradation.

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Section: The Globalization-economic Growth-environment Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Effects of Economic Complexity and the Transition to a Clean Energy Pattern on Ecological Footprint From the Indian Perspective

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Jahanger

Usman

et al. 2022

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“…Because of the negative impact of environmental regulations on export trade, country B-related pollution-intensive enterprises will have gained a comparative advantage, and business will move from A to B, consistent with making countries with low environmental standards pollution havens. As a result, country A's exports of pollution-intensive products will decrease as environmental regulations increase production costs, internalizing environmental costs (Balsalobre-Lorente et al 2021;Yang et al 2021c). Second, neoclassical international trade theory expands on the traditional factor endowment theory (Ronald 1993;Intisar et al 2020).…”

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The impact of environmental regulations on export trade at provincial level in China: evidence from panel quantile regression

Ouyang

Wang

Deng

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2008 to 2017, this paper constructs a quantile regression econometric model to analyze whether China's environmental regulation has an impact on export trade and to verify whether the Porter hypothesis has been valid in China in recent years. The results show that in the short term, environmental regulations have a restraining effect on export trade, while in the long run, due to the existence of innovation efficiency, environmental regulations will change from having a restraining effect to a promoting effect on export trade. Strict environmental regulations will reduce the production cost of Chinese products, further improve the export competitiveness of Chinese enterprises, and promote export trade. The empirical results verify the conclusion that the Porter hypothesis is confirmed in China. The following three suggestions are proposed for China's exports to promote the win-win of China's green development and export trade: promote the realization of international and domestic double circulation, avoid becoming "pollution shelters" and support technological innovation in environmental protection industries.

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“…According to (UNEP, 2016), emerging nations spend around 5% of their GDP on health-linked expenses caused by pollution (UNEP, 2016). As a result, the goal of universal healthcare access is jeopardized due to rising healthcare expenses (Atuahene et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2021;Zeeshan et al, 2021).…”

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“…For example, (Chaabouni et al, 2016) scrutinized the drivers of health expenditures in 51 nations and their findings unveiled that an upsurge in GDP contributes to health expenditures. Similarly, (Yang et al, 2021) assessed the drivers of healthcare expenditure based on the STIRPAT framework from 1995 to 2018. The authors employed AMG and CCEMG approaches to assess this connection and their outcomes disclosed that urbanization, industrialization, ecological footprint, and economic expansion triggers health expenditures while globalization mitigates health expenditure.…”

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Does Carbon Emissions, and Economic Expansion Induce Health Expenditure in China: Evidence for Sustainability Perspective

Xiu¹,

Ameer²,

Abbas³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The current paper assesses the drivers of health care expenditure such as urbanization, natural resources, economic expansion, and CO2 utilizing quarterly data from 2000Q1 to 2018Q4. The research applied the novel dual adjustment approach to identify the long run association between healthcare expenditure and urbanization, economic growth, natural resource and CO2 emissions. The main novelty of the dual adjustment approach is that the approach offers another way to cointegration analysis by relaxing the implicit assumption of the singular adjustment in cointegration analysis. The outcome of the dual adjustment approach affirmed cointegration among the variables in the long run. Furthermore, we applied fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR) estimators and their results disclosed that economic growth, urbanization, and CO2 emissions increase health care expenditure while natural resource rent mitigates healthcare expenditure in China. Moreover, the spectral causality test uncovered that urbanization, economic growth, natural resource, and CO2 emissions can predict healthcare expenditure at various frequencies. Based on these findings, China’s policymakers should establish strategic environmental management policies that improve healthy and clean air to reduce healthcare costs. In addition, policymakers in China should reevaluate their urban development strategies to avoid negative externalities associated with fast urbanization.

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Do industrialization, economic growth and globalization processes influence the ecological footprint and healthcare expenditures? Fresh insights based on the STIRPAT model for countries with the highest healthcare expenditures

Cited by 222 publications

References 78 publications

Exploring the Effects of Economic Complexity and the Transition to a Clean Energy Pattern on Ecological Footprint From the Indian Perspective

Exploring the Effects of Economic Complexity and the Transition to a Clean Energy Pattern on Ecological Footprint From the Indian Perspective

The impact of environmental regulations on export trade at provincial level in China: evidence from panel quantile regression

Does Carbon Emissions, and Economic Expansion Induce Health Expenditure in China: Evidence for Sustainability Perspective

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