Investigating the causality links between environmental quality, foreign direct investment and economic growth in MENA countries

Abdouli, Mohamed; Hammami, Sami

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.07.004

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“…This is mainly because economic development in the eastern and central provinces is faster than that in the western provinces and greater economic activities lead to higher CO 2 emissions. Our result confirms those of Alam, Begum, Buysse, and Huylenbroeck () and Abdouli and Hammami (). Second, CO 2 emissions lagged by one period show a greater significant effect on FDI in the western provinces than in the central provinces.…”

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Causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions and economic factors: Evidence from China

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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This study investigates the causal relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic factors in Chinese provinces. Then, this study undertakes a comparative analysis of the eastern, central, and western provinces using a vector autoregressive model and panel data for 1997–2015. The results show there is unidirectional causality from per capita gross domestic product (GDP) to CO2 emissions in eastern and central provinces. Meanwhile, there is unidirectional causality from CO2 emissions to GDP per capita in western provinces. There is unidirectional causality between CO2 emissions to foreign direct investment in central and western provinces but no impact in eastern provinces. However, there is unidirectional causality between CO2 emissions to export volume only in eastern provinces. Based on the results, this study concludes that to reduce CO2 emissions, China should not only implement strict laws and regulations but should also advocate green investment, technological innovation, development of a circular economy, and sustainable development.

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confidence: 93%

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Causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions and economic factors: Evidence from China

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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“…Contrarily, Abdouli and Hammami (2017) indicate the occurrence of unidirectional causality running from FDI stocks to CO2 emissions in MENA countries, although there were country-level differences. However, Kivyiro and Arminen (2014) show mixed empirical results in six sub-Saharan countries, but in the case of Ghana, Solarin et al (2017) indicate that FDI has a positive effect on CO2 emissions.…”

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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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“…Including the study of Louail (2015), which concluded that there is a positive and moral impact of economic growth on the flow of foreign direct investment in Algeria. There are those who studied the causal relationship, including the study of Ciarmatori et al (2018) and the study of Abdouli and Hammami (2017), most of which concluded a causal link between economic growth and foreign direct investment.…”

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“…Secondly, the number of fixed and mobile phone subscriptions per thousand of the population is adopted to capture for telecommunications infrastructure indicator (TINF) (Rudra et al, 2017;Suh and Khan, 2003). Third, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annual growth rate is considered to proxy for market size (Sekkat and Veganzones, 2007;Moosa, 2009;Mina, 2012;Jabri et al, 2013;Jabri and Brahim, 2015;Abdouli and Hammami, 2017). All these control variables are expected to be more attractive for FDI inflows.…”

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The impact of the local SMEs sector on FDI and the mediating effect of IFRS adoption in developing economies: The case of Algeria

Zouita¹

2019

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The present paper aims to empirically explore the impact of SMEs on foreign direct investment inflows and analyses the effect role of IFRS adoption on the relationship between the SMEs sector and foreign direct investment inflows in short and long run in Algeria during the period of 1970-2017. This investigation intends to fill a major gap regarding empirical literature on FDI drivers in developing countries. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach, the findings show a positive association between SMEs and foreign direct investment inflows in Algeria in the long-run. However, in terms of the role of IFRS adoption in mediating the impact of SMEs on FDI inflows in Algeria, our findings report a negative contribution of IFRS adoption of the association between SMEs and FDI inflows in both long and short run. These findings provide significant implications for regulators and policymakers in developing countries improve the business environment of their countries, manager and foreign investors in assessing the business environment in host countries and for both developing countries and academic research.

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Investigating the causality links between environmental quality, foreign direct investment and economic growth in MENA countries

Cited by 192 publications

References 61 publications

Causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions and economic factors: Evidence from China

Causal relationships between carbon dioxide emissions and economic factors: Evidence from China

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

The impact of the local SMEs sector on FDI and the mediating effect of IFRS adoption in developing economies: The case of Algeria

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