Energy, Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions Nexus: The Case of Malaysia

Azlina, Ab. Aziz Nor; Mustapha, Nik Hashim Nik

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.082

Cited by 70 publications

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“…In line with this, Holtz-Eakin and Selden [52]; and Shafik [53] found a monotonic relationship between CO 2 emissions and income levels. Our findings are also supported by other studies in Malaysia such as Azlina and Mustapha [54], who reported Granger causality relations among economic growth, energy consumption and pollutant emissions. Ang [25] also found a bidirectional relation from economic growth to energy consumption in Malaysia.…”

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confidence: 91%

Dynamic Impacts of Economic Growth and Forested Area on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Malaysia

2020

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This study measures the relationship and dynamic impacts of economic growth and forested area on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Malaysia. Time series data over the period of 1990 to 2016 were used by employing the dynamic ordinary least squared (DOLS) approach. The results of DOLS estimation indicate that the coefficient of economic growth is positive and significant with CO2 emissions, meaning that RM1 million increase in gross domestic product (GDP) is associated with an increase in CO2 emissions of 0.931 kilo tons. Instead, the long-run coefficient of forested area found negative and significant, which implies that declining one hectare of forested area (i.e., deforestation) has an impact of three kilo tons of CO2 emissions rise in Malaysia. Our study findings indicate that economic growth and deforested area have an adverse effect on Malaysia’s carbon emissions where GDP growth fosters carbon emissions at a faster rate. Thus, the effective implementation of policy measures and economic instruments including afforestation and reforestation, forest conservation, sustainable forest management, REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus) mechanism and other emission reduction mechanisms inter alia could be useful for reducing carbon emissions while decreasing deforestation and maintaining the long-term economic growth in Malaysia.

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Dynamic Impacts of Economic Growth and Forested Area on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Malaysia

2020

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“…Our estimates revealed unidirectional causality running from economic growth to energy consumption. In other words, economic growth causes energy consumption in post-communistic countries, confirming conservation hypothesis and supporting previous findings (Dehnavi and Haghnejad, 2012;Azlina and Mustapha, 2012;Damette and Seghir, 2013).…”

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confidence: 90%

Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence From Post-Communist Countries

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Current study aimed to explore the nexus between energy and economic growth in post-communist nations during 1995-2014. As an empirical model, the growth model is employed including economic complexity indicator as a measure of capabilities for exporting sophisticated products. We employ Pedroni's (1999) panel cointegration tests and Panel Dynamic OLS estimation to assess the long-term link between the variables. At 1% significance level, we confirm cointegration between energy consumption and economic growth. Panel Dynamic OLS results revealed that economic growth positively influences energy consumption in Post-Communist states. The Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) panel Granger causality test results discovered unidirectional causality running from economic growth to energy consumption. Economic growth causes energy consumption in post-communistic countries, confirming the conservation hypothesis.

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“…The empirical findings suggest that household economical and sociological characteristics as well as more overall environmental issues are appropriate to explicate differences towards fuelwood consumption for space heating and cooking in Northern Greece. In case of Malaysia, Azlina and Mustapha [15] findings demonstrate the existence of the long-run linkage between energy consumption, economic growth and pollutant emission over the period 1970-2010. The empirical results further reveals a uni-directional causality flowing from growth to energy consumption, from pollutant emissions to energy consumption and from pollutant emissions to economic growth.…”

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confidence: 93%