Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 years

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Investigating Growth-Energy-Emissions Trilemma in South Asia

“…To answer these questions, an unbalanced panel data of per capita GDP (a proxy for economic growth), renewable energy per capita, nonrenewable energy use, and carbon emissions per capita from seven selected South Asian 1 countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) spanning 1990-2019 is used to investigate if energy and economic growth contribute to carbon emissions. Similar to Shahbaz et al (2016), this paper further differs from previous studies on South Asian countries (see Sharma et al (2014), Uddin and Wadud (2014), Pandey and Mishra (2016), Osmani (2018), ) by strictly engaging a trivariate model to analyze the relationship. The empirical investigation employs the Praise-Winsten panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE), feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and bootstrapping ordinary least squares (OLS).…”

Environmental Degradation, Economic Growth and Non-renewable Energy in Selected South Asian Countries: Trivariate Analysis From DCCE-MG Approach

“…To achieve this, an unbalanced panel data of per capita GDP (a proxy for economic growth), non-renewable energy per capita and carbon emissions per capita from five selected South Asian 2 countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) spanning 1990 to 2018 is used to: (1) investigate the growth-led and energy-led degradation relation; (2) assess if the growth-led and energy-led degradation relation significantly differ across the countries; and (3) establish the direction of causality among the variables. Similar to Shahbaz, Jam, Bibi, and Loganathan (2016), this paper further differs from previous studies on SAARC or South Asian countries (see Sharma, Kishan, and Doig (2014), Uddin and Wadud (2014), Pandey and Mishra (2015), Osmani (2018), Rahman, Saidi, and Mbarek (2020)) by strictly engaging a dynamic trivariate model to analyse the relationship.…”

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“…As a consequence, the health and educational outcomes of the people of Sri Lanka surged ahead of the levels achieved not just in South Asia but in most other developing countries, and even some developed countries of the world. In the process, Sri Lanka became a role model for the human development paradigm.26 Since the early 1990s, other countries in the 23 See figure 1 in Osmani (2018). The international poverty line has been used for the sake of comparability across countries.…”