Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals through technological innovation: juxtaposing the economic and environmental effects of financial development and energy use

Domestic capital adequacy and sustainable economic growth are heavily reliant on technological advancement, managerial know-how, and money supply in the economy. In this context, FDI has emerged and is placed at an apex position due to its unprecedented impact on achieving sustainability across the world. The motivation of this study is to scale the effects of good governance, financial inclusion, and environmental quality on inflows of FDI in BRI nations for the period from 1990 to 2020. Several panel econometrical tools have been applied, for example, CDS, CADF, CIPS, CS-ARDL, and NARDL, to investigate the association and explanatory variables elasticity on inflows of FDI in BRI nations. CDS results revealed that research units share common dynamism and second-generation panel unit root test-documented variables are stationary after the first difference. The results of the panel co-integration with an error-correction term confirmed the empirical equation’s long-run association. According to the CS-ARDL assessment, positive and statistically significant impacts have been documented, from financial inclusion, good governance, and environmental quality to FDI inflows. Study findings suggest that governmental effectiveness, easy access to financial services and benefits, and a less-regulated environmental concern economy motivate capital transfer decisions. The asymmetric assessment documented a long-run asymmetric association between FI, GG, EQ, and FDI. Referring to asymmetric shock elasticity, the study disclosed a positive and statistically significant relation to FDI inflows, especially in the long run. The directional causality test documented bidirectional causality running between FI, EQ, GG, and FDI [FI←→FDI; GG←→FDI; and EQ←→FDI] in the short-run.

Section: Environmental Quality and Foreign Direct Investmentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Do environmental quality, financial inclusion, and good governance ensure the FDI sustainably in Belt and Road countries? Evidence from an application of CS-ARDL and NARDL

Jinru

Qamruzzaman

Hangyu

et al. 2022

“…Furthermore, the study revealed that independent directors have more access than executive directors to the resources and information supplied by third parties. Greater corporate governance, on the whole, contributes to an improvement in financial performance by lowering the risk that investors are exposed to and, as a result, assists in the recruitment of more investors (Manigandan et al, 2022;Spanos, 2005). Businesses can make the most of the available resources and predict that they will also have exceptional financial performance because have good corporate governance systems.…”

Section: Corporate Governance and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of environmental disclosure and the quality of financial disclosure and IT adoption on firm performance: Does corporate governance ensure sustainability?

Jiang

Qamruzzaman

2023

Introduction: The study’s motivation is to investigate the role of environmental and financial disclosure, IT adoption, and good governance on firms’ sustainability from 1990–2019. A sample of 75 financial institutions enlisted in Bangladesh’s capital market was considered for relevant data collection.Methodology: Secondary data sources were used for data accumulation, including annual reports of target FIs, economic review reports, and central banks publication. Several econometrical techniques have been implemented to document the empirical nexus and the elasticities of explained variables on firm performance.Findings: In terms of baseline assessment, the study revealed a positive and statistically significant association between a firm’s sustainability and target explanatory variables. Furthermore, the study extended the empirical valuation by implementing a system-GMM and documented a positive linkage between financial and environmental disclosure, IT adaptation, good governance, and the firm’s performance sustainability.Discussion: These study findings suggest that information symmetry, investor protection, and access to financial services foster and stabilize the firms’ performance. Concerning corporate governance’s mediating effect, the study established a mediating role with positive influences on financial performance augmentation. On the policy ground, the study postulated that financial policymakers should address fairness and integrity in disclosing information to the public. Enforcement has to be initiated to ensure good governance.

“…Poor maintenance of the destination's environment and resources; inadequate tourist facilities, activities, and infrastructures; security and safety concerns; a lack of a dedicated cell or body to guarantee the quality of tourism products and services; a lack of coordination and partnership among tourism stakeholders; an ineffective marketing strategy; and an insufficient budget are all factors that slow down the development of tourism in Bangladesh as a whole (Muneem et al, 2020;Manigandan et al, 2022). Working cooperatively with 15 ministries, this strategy includes 11 sectors to cover.…”

Section: Good Governance and Tourism Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nexus between environmental sustainability, good governance, financial inclusion, and tourism development in Bangladesh: Evidence from symmetric and asymmetric investigation

Islam

Mindia

Farzana

et al. 2023

Over the past decade, tourism’s contribution to economic Section progress has emerged as an alternative avenue for socio-economic development, especially in the productive economy with natural beauty. On the other hand, the potential effects of tourism on the environment have also been unveiled in the literature, along with macroeconomic misbehavior due to erratic environmental changes. However, the study’s impetus is to inspect the reaction of tourism contribution to Bangladesh’s economy from 1991–2019 with ecological sustainability, good governance, and financial inclusion in the empirical assessment. With the implementation of both linear and non-linear frameworks, the present study has explored the elasticities of core explanatory variables on explained variables; for directional causality, the novel Fourier Toda and Yamamoto causality test has been executed. According to the combined cointegration test, Bangladesh has a long-run association between environmental sustainability, good governance, financial inclusion, and tourism development. Inferring from long-run symmetric and asymmetric cointegration, the test statistics revealed statistically significant at a 1% level, suggesting the long-run relations in the established empirical model. Considering the linear autoregressive disoriented lagged, the study established a negative and statistically significant linkage between environmental sustainably and tourism contribution, suggesting that the excessive inflows of carbon emission that environmental degradation dwindles the progress of tourism contribution. Whereas a positive and statistically significant influence runs from good governance and financial inclusion to tourism development, the suggestion of easy access to financial services and effective institutional activities prompts tourism activities, especially in the long-run. The asymmetric investigation established non-linearity in the empirical model for the long and short-run. In terms of asymmetric coefficients, the study unveiled the positive and negative shocks of environmental sustainability exposed negatively and statistically significant. In contrast, the asymmetric shocks of financial inclusion and good governance established positive and statistically substantial Bangladesh tourism development in the long and short-run. The directional causality assessment revealed bidirectional causality running between explanatory variables to tourism development.