Revisiting the N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve for economic complexity and ecological footprint

Numan, Umar; Ma, Benjiang; Meo, Muhammad Saeed; Bedru, Hayat Dino

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132642

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“…EF tracks the ecological assets needed to produce the natural resources consumed by humanity and sequester the waste. Many recent investigations have linked EF with the economic growth in the EKC framework incorporating different variables (Pata, 2021, Numan et al, 2022. A brief review of some related studies is provided below: Charfeddine (2017) revealed that EF is increased by trade, electricity consumption, and financial development (FD) in Qatar, while economic growth (Y) and EF have exhibited a U-shaped relationship instead of the EKC.…”

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Achieving SDG-13 in the Era of Conflicts: The Roles of Economic Growth and Government Stability

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Establishing effective climate control and reducing the ecological footprint (EF) are necessary for pursuing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular Goal 13. In this context, it is required to enhance the understanding of various factors that can either decrease or enhance the EF. In the literature to date, limited studies on external conflicts (EX) have reported diverse results, and also the impacts of government stability (GS) on EF are less explored. This study explores the roles of external conflicts, economic growth, and government stability on EF in the context of SDG-13. The study also contributes to the literature by examining the environmental effects of government stability and external conflicts for the first time in Pakistan. This research uses time-series methodologies on data from Pakistan from 1984 to 2018 for exploring the long-run relations and causal dynamics. The results unfolded that external conflicts stimulate and Granger cause EF and therefore expand environmental deterioration. Thus, limiting conflicts is in the favor of Pakistan to achieve SDG-13. Surprisingly, government stability also poses harmful impacts on environmental quality by enhancing the EF, indicating that stable governments focus on improving economic conditions rather than environmental quality. Moreover, the study proves the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve. Policy suggestions are made to move forward in achieving SDG-13 and to evaluate the effectiveness of government environmental policies.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“…This is in line with the characteristics of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model, in that the influence direction of the independent variable changes after reaching a certain value. Most studies applying Kuznets curve model employ reduced-form models, in which the explained variable is the quadratic or cubic function of the explanatory variable [62][63][64][65]. Simplified EKC models can clearly specify the form of variable relationships and provide empirical explanations for the solution of research problems [66].…”

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Does Economic Growth Lead to an Increase in Cultivated Land Pressure? Evidence from China

Wang

Hong-bo

2022

Land

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With economic growth, people’s living standards improve, and more cultivated land is needed to meet food demand. Meanwhile, the economic growth and urban expansion in China since 1978 has led to the loss of considerable amounts of cultivated land. Thus, the contradiction between “economic growth” and “food security” becomes increasingly prominent. Studying the impact of economic growth on cultivated land population support pressure is the basis for easing this problem. This study uses the cultivated land pressure index to represent cultivated land population support pressure, and explores the relationship between economic growth and cultivated land pressure based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017. The feasibility generalized least squares estimation and the fixed effect model based on Driscoll and Kraay standard errors are used. The results show that: (1) the impact of economic growth on cultivated land pressure is an N-shaped or U-shaped curve; and (2) there are regional differences in the impact of economic growth on cultivated land pressure. The cultivated land pressure in economically developed regions and main grain production regions responds slowly to the impact of economic growth. Therefore, some policy recommendations are put forward, such as paying attention to cultivated land protection and controlling disorderly urban expansion.

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“…We are currently battling an unknown adversary, the coronavirus (COVID-19), which emerged from China's Wuhan province at the end of 2019. (Stratoon & Tang, 2020;Suki et al,2022;Nazar et al,2022;Chaudhry et al,2022;Hameed et al,2021;Islam et al,2022;Ali et al,2021;Hassan et al,2020;Fatima et al,2021;Meo et al,2021;Sun et al,2022;Chang et al,2022;Numan et al,2022;Shaari et al,2021).…”

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What Drives the US Stock Market: An Empirical Analysis

Niazi

Nasir

Ayub

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RAMSS

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This study is conducted to check the asymmetric impact of the pandemic uncertainty (PUI), oil prices and uncertainty index (UI) on the large, mid and small capitalization of US Islamic stock market. The analysis is conducted for the time period of 18 years starting from 2002 to 2020 using auto-regressive distributive lags (ARDL) for exploring the nonlinear or asymmetric influence of variables on. The results suggested that oil prices (OP) did not significantly impact the Large, Mid and Small capitalization of US stock market. Whereas, the pandemic uncertainty have a significantly negative long term relationship with the Large, Mid and Small capitalization of US Islamic stock market. However, uncertainty index have a significantly positive long term relationship with the Large, Mid and Small capitalization of US stock market.

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Revisiting the N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve for economic complexity and ecological footprint

Cited by 42 publications

References 48 publications

Achieving SDG-13 in the Era of Conflicts: The Roles of Economic Growth and Government Stability

Achieving SDG-13 in the Era of Conflicts: The Roles of Economic Growth and Government Stability

Does Economic Growth Lead to an Increase in Cultivated Land Pressure? Evidence from China

What Drives the US Stock Market: An Empirical Analysis

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