Revisiting trade and environment nexus in South Africa: fresh evidence from new measure

Udeagha, Maxwell Chukwudi; Ngepah, Nicholas

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-05944-y

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“…It has been evident that the association between trade liberalization and the environment is not uni-directional [20,[34][35][36]. Udeagha and Ngepah [37] examined the association between trade and environmental quality in South Africa. The findings show that the country has a comparative advantage in exports of products that necessitate energy that is met by consuming fossil fuels, which eventually deteriorates the environment significantly.…”

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Performance Index: Mediation Role of Climate Change Performance and Greenfield Investment

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At present, concerns regarding climate change are common, especially in countries more vulnerable to environmental degradation. Greenhouse gases, including carbon emissions, are mainly considered to deteriorate the environment. Despite substantial agreement on many environmental issues, there are also important differences between regions and countries, and often, within nations. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the environmental performance of South and East Asian countries and its association with trade and other economic variables. Panel regression techniques and robust checks are used to examine the data, which covers 15 years from 2002 to 2016. The findings suggest an extensive negative association between trade liberalization and the environmental performance of selected countries. It is also shown that climate change performance is an important channel for the overall environmental change. The results regarding heterogeneous differences affirm the concept of sustainability and the pollution halo hypothesis. However, it is suggested that each country should make an effort to improve its environmental performance along with economic development. The role of green innovation and renewable energy is very crucial in this regard. The outcomes of this study could be helpful for researchers and policymakers to form better policies regarding the environment and climate change.

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Performance Index: Mediation Role of Climate Change Performance and Greenfield Investment

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“…Udeagha and Ngepah [20] focused their work on South African economies and empirically investigated the affiliation between trade and environmental quality throughout 1960-2016. the results of the study indicated the positive relationship between trade and environmental quality in the short run, while a negative relationship between trade and environmental quality has been found in the long run. Abbas, Kousar [16] utilized the data of Pakistan for 1980-2012 and investigated the empirical association between trade openness and environmental degradation under the framework of the "pollution haven hypothesis" and showed a significant association between trade openness and environmental degradation.…”

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Financial Development, Institutional Quality, and Environmental Degradation Nexus: New Evidence from Asymmetric ARDL Co-Integration Approach

Ahmed

Kousar²,

Pervaiz

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Sustainability

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The aim of this study is threefold; first, the study investigates the symmetric impact of trade openness, financial development, and institutional quality on environmental degradation and environmental sustainability. Second, the study examines the asymmetric relationship between financial development, institutional quality, and environmental degradation. Third, the study examines the asymmetric relationship between financial development, institutional quality, and environmental sustainability. For this purpose, the study utilized the data of Pakistan from 1996 to 2018. The study applied Augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF), Phillips Parron (PP) and Zivote, and Andrews unit root test to check the properties of stationarity of the data. This study applied the Auto Regressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) model to investigate symmetric relationships while the Non-Linear Auto Regressive Distributive Lag Model (NARDL) approach is utilized to investigate the asymmetric relationship among variables. ARDL bounds testing approach utilized to investigate long-run co-integration while short-run dynamics have been investigated by applying the error correction method (ECM). This study found the significant long-run symmetric and asymmetric association of institutional quality (IQ) and financial development (FD) with environmental degradation (ED) and environmental sustainability. However, IQ- has an insignificant association with environmental sustainability. Moreover, dynamic multiplier analysis indicates that positive shock to FD and IQ has a stronger impact on environmental degradation while a positive or negative shock to FD; both have a stronger impact on environmental sustainability. However, a positive or negative shock to IQ has a smaller impact on environmental sustainability. Moreover, the study also found a significant long-run symmetric association of trade openness with environmental degradation and environmental sustainability. This study suggests that the quality of institutions, financial development, and trade openness is necessary to enhance the quality of the environment.

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“…Aklin ( 2016 ) specified that international trade shifts the pollution from one country to another. Udeagha and Ngepah ( 2019 ) worked on the relationship between trade openness and environment quality. In this regard, the study utilized the data of South African Economies and showed the positive association between trade openness and environmental quality in the short run, while negative association in long run.…”

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Role of green innovation, trade and energy to promote green economic growth: a case of South Asian Nations

Ahmed

Kousar

Pervaiz

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The objective of this study is to contribute to the existing debate of green economic growth by empirically investigating the role of cleaner energy production, green innovation, and green trade in green economic growth in the context of South Asian countries. For this purpose, the study collects the data of South Asian Economies for 2000–2018 from different sources such as world development indicators (WDI), International Energy Statistics (IES), and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics. The study applied Pesaran’s ( 2007 ) second-generation unit root test to test the stationarity of the data. Wasteland’s (2007) test of cointegration was applied to examine the long-run association among modeled variables. The study confirmed the long-run association among modeled variables that turn to be stationary at the first differences. Moreover, the study applied fully modified least square (FMOLS) and dynamic least square (DOLS) to estimate the empirical results of the study. Results of the study show that the production of clean energy, green innovation, and green trade positively contributes to the green economic growth of South Asian Economies

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Revisiting trade and environment nexus in South Africa: fresh evidence from new measure

Cited by 78 publications

References 80 publications

Trade Liberalization and Environmental Performance Index: Mediation Role of Climate Change Performance and Greenfield Investment

Trade Liberalization and Environmental Performance Index: Mediation Role of Climate Change Performance and Greenfield Investment

Financial Development, Institutional Quality, and Environmental Degradation Nexus: New Evidence from Asymmetric ARDL Co-Integration Approach

Role of green innovation, trade and energy to promote green economic growth: a case of South Asian Nations

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