FDI, Growth and the Environment: Impact on Quality of Life in Malaysia

Hitam, Mizan; Borhan, Halimahton

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.08.038

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“…This empirical evidence is similar to Shahbaz et al (2015), who reported that FDI increases CO2 emissions in developed countries like France. On a broader note, this finding is in line with those reported by Ren et al (2014) on China, Hitam and Borhan (2012) and Lau et al (2014) on Malaysia, Chandran and Tang while Jordaan et al (2017) argue that public budget in energy research and development expenditures promotes energy innovations, which reduce energy intensity and lowers carbon emissions. Nonetheless, our findings add to the literature on the nexus between the innovation and technological progress in general and environmental improvement (e.g.…”

Section: Empirical Findings and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…It implies that even in a single country (China), we have mixed evidence. In evidence from other emerging economies, such as studies on Malaysia by Hitam and Borhan (2012) and Lau et al (2014) report that although FDI promotes higher economic growth, it also leads to higher environmental degradation. Tang and Tan (2015) report that income and FDI are the main determinants of increasing CO2 emissions in Vietnam.…”

Section: Fdi-emissions Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations

2018

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This paper explores the determinants of carbon emissions in France by accounting for the significant role played by foreign direct investment (FDI), financial development, economic growth, energy consumption and energy research innovations in influencing CO2 emissions function. In this endeavour, we employ the novel SOR ) unit root test on French time series data over the period 1955-2016 to examine the order of integration in the presence of sharp and smooth structural breaks in the variables. We also apply the bootstrapping bounds testing approach, recently developed by McNown et al. (2018), to investigate the presence of cointegration and the empirical findings underscore the presence of cointegration among the time series. Moreover, we find that FDI has a positive impact, while energy research innovations have a negative impact, on French carbon emissions. Financial development lowers carbon emissions, thereby improving the French environmental quality. FDI degrades the environment, and thus supports the pollution-haven hypothesis in France. Similarly, financial development suggests that financial stability is a required condition for improving environmental quality, so are energy research innovations. Contrarily, energy consumption is positively linked with carbon emissions. However, the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions is an inverted-U, which is a validation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC).

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Section: Empirical Findings and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Fdi-emissions Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental degradation in France: The effects of FDI, financial development, and energy innovations

2018

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“…The private sector, demand-driven land development activities have become significant contributors to the growth of GDP of the country (Hitam & Borhan, 2012). This perspective clarifies that the impact of neoliberal globalisation has influenced government to use 'governance tools' such as policies and legislations to guide the economic development.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Urban Settlements: Issues and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Urban Planning and the Challenges of Neoliberal Globalisation in Malaysia

Marzukhi

Leh

Hamdan

2017

PMJ

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Popularly referred to as an Asian Tiger, planning for economic development has been a significant feature in the Malaysian planning system. This reflected the historical junctures that transform Malaysia economy from agricultural potential to industrial capabilities. The rapid industrialisation that can be linked to neoliberal ideology has caused people to migrate from rural to urban area that echoed the emergence of urban settlements. However, this transformation has produced social and environmental instability, as a result of capital accumulation. Accordingly, this study conducted in-depth interviews and documents analysis, with the objective to develop understanding of how neoliberal globalisation rationalises the emergence of urban settlements in Malaysia through its policies and planning practice. The Nvivo10 was used to define categories and synthesise the ideas from the interview data and planning policy documents. This paper is expected to contribute to deepening knowledge of the emergence of urban settlements particularly in the urban planning field under the pervasive discourse of neoliberal globalisation.

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“…Some studies found evidence supporting the negative impact of FDI on air pollution. (Hitam & Borhan, 2012)observed the relationship between FDI, GDP growth and pollution in Malaysia. It was explained thatsustained growth of foreign direct investment is one of the importantcauses of environmentaldegradation [11].…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%