Smart Energy Systems, Infrastructure Financing, and the Wider Economy

Examining the bidirectional nexus between financial development and green growth: International evidence through the roles of human capital and education expenditure

“…Besides the central roles of human capital and education expenditure, the other critical determinants such as financing sustainable infrastructure (Global Infrastructure Initiative, 2017;Thacker et al, 2019;Trinh, Squires, et al, 2022) and smart energy systems and energy efficiency (Trinh, 2021;Trinh, Sharma, et al, 2022)…”

Do green growth and technological innovation matter to infrastructure investments in the era of climate change? Global evidence

“…Since the trajectories between climate change, energy, and economic activities along with the roles technological innovation have been documented in the extant literature with the Environmental Kuznets curve -EKC hypothesis (Shahbaz et al, 2018;Su et al, 2020;McLaren and Markusson, 2020;Cheng et al, 2021), the importance of financing infrastructure development toward SDGs is undeniable as the backbone for a progressive implementation of those trajectories for climate change mitigation and adaptation (see Trinh, 2021;OECD, 2017). This is particularly critical when the world is facing an enormous infrastructure investment need with a predicted aggregate investment gap of $18 trillion by 2040 for the sustainable development of the world's economy across all sectors, reported by Global Infrastructure Outlook (2017) 4 .…”