Does trade liberalization lead to environmental burden shifting in the global economy?

Kolcava, Dennis; Nguyễn, Quỳnh; Bernauer, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.006

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“…In terms of carbon emissions, the impact of power plants is found insignificant, which may due to the implementation of modern and energyefficient techniques of electricity generation. Considering the panel data of 183 countries, Kolcava et al, (2019) in their study confirmed that trade expansion has partially shifted the burden of environmental pollution from developed to developing countries. In comparison to international trade agreements, the impact of domestic trade policies is found sharper on ecological indicators in the long run.…”

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Examining the impacts of economic and demographic aspects on the ecological footprint in South and Southeast Asian countries

Sharma

Sinha

Kautish

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The reexamination of the existing economic and environmental policies in the South and Southeast Asian countries seems to be necessary, as these countries are struggling to achieve the goals of sustainable development. For suggesting a long-term environmental policy, we intend to examine whether the selected economic and demographic indicators have influenced the ecological footprint in the eight developing countries of Asia for the period of 1990-2015. The use of pooled mean group (PMG) approach allowed driving the long-run common coefficients, which may facilitate us to develop a common policy framework to fortify the environmental quality. The computed results confirmed that the selected variable are cointegrated in the long run; and, per capita income, nonrenewable energy usage, urbanization, fertility rate, and population density are observed as the significant drivers of the environmental pollution. On the other hand, renewable energy consumption restored the environmental quality in these countries. Based on the results, we recommend the need for the diversification of the energy-basket where the use of renewable energy resources to be enhanced. Further, by sensitizing the necessity of environmental conservation, governments should promote less carbon-intense economic and demographic practices across the industries and sectors.

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confidence: 80%

Examining the impacts of economic and demographic aspects on the ecological footprint in South and Southeast Asian countries

Sharma

Sinha

Kautish

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Essentially, LDCs are pollution havens for firms from developed countries. Kearsley and Riddel [3], Kolcava et al [4], Xu et al [5], Rana and Sharma [6], and Martinez-Zarzoso et al [7] offer cross-country or single-country evidence to support the hypothesis.…”

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“…That is, tough environmental protections have an adverse effect on a country's economy because these protections hurt firm exports, especially when a less-developed country (LDC) has an export-oriented economic growth policy that attracts polluting firms to relocate from developed countries to LDCs. Once environmental protections are tightened in LDCs, firms from developed countries then move away, and the exports of the host country (an LDC) stall (Kearsley and Riddel [3]; Kolcava et al [4]). The pollution haven hypothesis is supported in empirical studies in China (Xu et al [5], India (Rana and Sharma [6]), and East European countries (Martinez-Zarzoso et al [7]).…”

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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Firm Export: Evidence from China’s Ecological Protection Red Line Policy?

2019

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China conducted a comprehensive overhaul of its environmental regulation as of April 2014. The regulation, which calls for a holistic approach to protect the environment, is also called the “Ecological Protection Red Line” (Red Line). It sets comprehensive standards for pollutants and mandates provinces to implement the regulations. The Porter and pollution haven hypotheses were tested for the impact of the Red Line on firm exports using a sample of Chinese A-share firms from 2011 to 2017. Our findings are consistent with the Porter hypothesis. The implementation of the Red Line has a positive impact on a firm’s exports. The findings are robust to alternative metrics of exports and different sub-samples. A firm’s innovation activities (in terms of research and development investments) and production efficiency were found to be the transmission channels, corroborating the underlying logic of the Porter hypothesis. Policy implications are discussed.

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“…The long-term sustainable economic policies and environmental resource management is the optimized solution to conserve natural environment [13]. Finally, The TEEF hypothesis is associated with negative impact of trade on environment to turn out ecological footprints [14]. The tight environmental regulations and emissions -cap trading is considered the sustainable policy instrument to mitigate negative environmental concerns, which caused ecological footprints [15].…”

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Evaluating Ecological Footprints through Inbound Tourism, Population Density, and Global Trade

Anser¹,

Yousaf²,

Nassani³

et al. 2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Environmental damages are largely visible by the man-made actions in general, including an enormous increase in international tourism, huge pressure on arable land by increasing population density, and global international trade. These stated factors are mainly responsible for 'ecological footprints' across the globe. The present study considered these factors in order to evaluate 'ecological footprints' in a panel of 130 countries for a period of 1995-2018. The dynamic differenced GMM estimator is used for empirical illustrations. The study used different regression estimators in order to get robust inferences and found that inbound tourism is the main detrimental factor of global environment that causes 'ecological footprint', which further exhibit the 'inverted U-shaped' relationship between them. Further, population density and countries economic growth first increases and later decreases ecological footprints to support 'inverted U-shaped relationship between them. The Granger causality results unable to verify the 'tourism-led growth' or 'growth-led tourism' hypothesis, while it shows 'no causal' relationship between them, although highly correlated in the regression estimates. Ecological footprint and population density both Granger cause inbound tourism, while the bidirectional relationship found between trade and inbound tourism. Sustainable tourism policies are highly needed to limit ecological footprints across countries.

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Does trade liberalization lead to environmental burden shifting in the global economy?

Cited by 104 publications

References 81 publications

Examining the impacts of economic and demographic aspects on the ecological footprint in South and Southeast Asian countries

Examining the impacts of economic and demographic aspects on the ecological footprint in South and Southeast Asian countries

The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Firm Export: Evidence from China’s Ecological Protection Red Line Policy?

Evaluating Ecological Footprints through Inbound Tourism, Population Density, and Global Trade

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