Natural resources, population aging, and environmental quality: analyzing the role of green technologies

Yang, Xiyue; Li, Nan; Ahmad, Mahmood; Mu, Hailin

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-19219-6

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“…In addition, the extensive use of NAR for agriculture, forestry, and mining impacts the environment. It should be noted that while many studies have examined how NAR affects EGR (e.g., Gupta et al, 2022; Kuo et al, 2022; Yang et al, 2022), very few have investigated how NAR affects CO 2 emissions. Moreover, conflicting results have emerged on the connection between CO 2 emissions and NAR.…”

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Trade‐off between environmental sustainability and economic growth through coal consumption and natural resources exploitation in China: New policy insights from wavelet local multiple correlation

Adebayo

2022

Geological Journal

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Challenges brought on by the rapid rate of economic growth include the depletion of natural resources (NAR) and environmental deterioration. Due to its abundant mineral resources and rapid economic growth, China has gained attention from both the developing and developed worlds. Using data from 1970/Q1 to 2020/Q4, this paper evaluates the time‐frequency nexus between CO2 emissions and natural resources, coal consumption, and economic growth. The study employs the Wavelet Local Multiple Correlation (WLMC) to explore this nexus. This approach enhances the capacity to comprehend the fundamental relationships between these indicators at different frequencies. To the best of the investigator' knowledge, this is the first empirical investigation to explore the time‐frequency nexus between natural resource, economic growth, coal use, and CO2 emissions in China, thus filling a gap in the literature. Furthermore, wavelet coherence is employed as a robustness check. The WLMC bivariate cases revealed that economic growth, coal consumption, and natural resources drive CO2 emissions positively at all frequencies, that is, in the short and long‐term, thus leading to environmental degradation. Furthermore, the wavelet coherence results support the outcomes of the WLMC bivariate cases. This study offers significant implications for policy and insights that are supported by the findings.

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Trade‐off between environmental sustainability and economic growth through coal consumption and natural resources exploitation in China: New policy insights from wavelet local multiple correlation

Adebayo

2022

Geological Journal

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“…Based on the above studies and theories, many scholars use linear models to study the impact of the aging population on economic growth, but this research method has major flaws. For example, Yang et al [3] found that the aging population would inhibit economic growth by reducing the ecological footprint; Lukyanets et al [4] also found that the aging population would reduce economic growth in Russia; Scott et al [5] and Liu [6] got the same conclusion. However, Pham and Vo [7], Mamun et al [8], and Wang et al [9] found that the aging population would promote economic growth.…”

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Regional impact of aging population on economic development in China: Evidence from panel threshold regression (PTR)

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Mazlan²,

Mohamed³

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PLoS ONE

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The aging population is a common problem faced by most countries in the world. This study uses 18 years (from 2002 to 2019) of panel data from 31 regions in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Province), and establishes a panel threshold regression model to study the non-linear impact of the aging population on economic development. It is different from traditional research in that this paper divides 31 regions in China into three regions: Eastern, Central, and Western according to the classification standard of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and compares the different impacts of the aging population on economic development in the three regions. Although this study finds that the aging population promotes the economy of China’s eastern, central, and western regions, different threshold variables have dramatically different influences. When the sum of export and import is the threshold variable, the impact of the aging population on the eastern and the central region of China is significantly larger than that of the western region of China. However, when the unemployment rate is the threshold variable, the impact of the aging population on the western region of China is dramatically higher than the other regions’ impact. Thus, one of the contributions of this study is that if the local government wants to increase the positive impact of the aging population on the per capita GDP of China, the local governments of different regions should advocate more policies that align with their economic situation rather than always emulating policies from other regions.

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“…At the same time due to the withdrawal of the elderly population from the labor force, thus leading to a decline in income, the elderly will choose to further inhibit consumption and increase personal savings, all of the above situations are not conducive to economic development [ 19 ]. In addition to the direct impacts of population aging on the economy, it has been found that population aging will bring about a reduction in the ecological footprint [ 20 ], an increase in public debt [ 21 ], and a decline in the capacity to innovate [ 22 ]. To cope with the negative impacts of an aging society on economic development, the government will increase spending on healthcare, infrastructure, pensions, etc., all of which will lead to a decrease in GDP growth [ 23 ].…”

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Inhibiting or promoting: Population aging and economic development in China

Yang,

2024

PLoS ONE

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Population aging has become a social issue of concern to the whole world, and as the world’s most populous country, how to cope with population aging will be a hot issue that all sectors of Chinese society must think about. This paper uses provincial panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2021 to study the relationship between population aging and economic development based on the perspective of health expenditure. The DIFF-GMM model, the fixed effect model (FE), and fixed effect instrumental variable model (FE-IV) are used to test this study. The following two conclusions are drawn from the empirical study: (1) population aging has a significant inhibitory effect on economic development, while health expenditures have a significant promotional effect on economic development; and (2) increased health expenditures help to alleviate the negative impact of population aging on economic development. However, the deepening of population aging will likewise inhibit the positive effect of health expenditure on economic growth. Based on the conclusions of the study, it is recommended that the government and society should continue to increase spending in the field of health protection, encourage and guide residents to carry out self-care, and moderately increase personal health expenditure, to promote economic development with healthy bodies and realize the goal of "Healthy China".

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Natural resources, population aging, and environmental quality: analyzing the role of green technologies

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Trade‐off between environmental sustainability and economic growth through coal consumption and natural resources exploitation in China: New policy insights from wavelet local multiple correlation

Trade‐off between environmental sustainability and economic growth through coal consumption and natural resources exploitation in China: New policy insights from wavelet local multiple correlation

Regional impact of aging population on economic development in China: Evidence from panel threshold regression (PTR)

Inhibiting or promoting: Population aging and economic development in China

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