Modeling the effects of energy consumption and urbanization on environmental pollution in South Asian countries: a nonparametric panel approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Irfan ◽  
Krishnendu Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Countries

scholarly journals Energy Consumption, Trade and GDP: A Case Study of South Asian Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (4II) ◽  
pp. 461-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shakeel ◽  
M. Mazhar Iqbal ◽  
M.. Tariq Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Production Process ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Electrical Equipment ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
Reasonable Cost

Acute shortage of energy sources in developing countries in general and South Asian countries in particular has shown that energy has become a binding input for any production process. Nowadays operation of heavy machinery and electrical equipment, and transportation of raw material and final products from their place of origination to their destination require heavy consumption of energy in one form or the other. Therefore, energy consumption that was previously ignored in the production function of a firm and an economy is now considered a vital input in production process. It affects GDP directly as by increasing energy consumption; more output can be produced with given stock of capital and labor force in a country. Also uninterrupted availability of energy at reasonable cost improves competiveness of home products in international markets and thus increases exports of home country a great deal. Resulting increase in net exports further adds to the GDP through multiplier effect

scholarly journals An Overview on Energy and Development of Energy Integration in Major South Asian Countries: The Building Sector

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5776
Author(s):  
Rashiqa Abdul Salam ◽  
Khuram Pervez Amber ◽  
Naeem Iqbal Ratyal ◽  
Mehboob Alam ◽  
Naveed Akram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Human Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Energy Integration ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Building Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Energy And Development

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (IPB) are the largest South Asian countries in terms of land area, gross domestic product (GDP), and population. The growth in these countries is impacted by inadequate renewable energy policy and implementation over the years, resulting in slow progress towards human development and economic sustainability. These developing countries are blessed with huge potential for renewable energy resources; however, they still heavily rely on fossil fuels (93%). IPB is a major contributor to the total energy consumption of the world and its most energy-intensive building sector (India 47%, Pakistan 55% and Bangladesh 55%) displays inadequate energy performance. This paper comprehensively reviews the energy mix and consumption in IPB with special emphasis on current policies and its impact on economic and human development. The main performance indicators have been critically analyzed for the period 1970–2017. The strength of this paper is a broad overview on energy and development of energy integration in major South Asian countries. Furthermore, it presents a broad deepening on the main sector of energy consumption, i.e., the building sector. The paper also particularly analyzes the existing buildings energy efficiency codes and policies, with specific long-term recommendations to improve average energy consumption per person. The study also examines the technical and regulatory barriers and recommends specific measures to adapt renewable technologies, with special attention to policies affecting energy consumption. The analysis and results are general and can be applied to other developing countries of the world.

Nexus of Renewable Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, Population Growth, FDI, and Environmental Degradation in South Asian Countries: New Evidence from Driscoll-Kraay Standard Error Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-211
Author(s):  
Ansar Abbas Shah ◽  
Muhammad Sajjad Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Atif Nawaz ◽  
Mazhar Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Sectional Dependence

Environmental degradation is the most prominent area nowadays, especially in developing counties where high renewable energy consumption and population growth deteriorate the atmosphere of the country. Thus, the current study investigates the nexus among renewable energy consumption, economic growth (EG), population growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), and environmental degradation in South Asian countries. The covariance matrix estimators that are developed by “Driscoll and Kraay” are used in this study. The primary property of this estimator is that it does not account for the cross-sectional dependence; thus, it provides substantial, robust outcomes among the cross-sectional units while in the presence of cross-sectional dependence. The data was collected from the World Development Indicators (WDI) from 2001 to 2019. The findings exposed that positive nexus among the population growth, FDI, and environmental degradation while renewable energy consumption and EG has negative nexus with environmental degradation and also not supported the EKC hypothesis in South Asian countries. These findings suggested that the regulators should develop policies that reduce environmental degradation in the presence of high EG, energy consumption, FDI, and population growth.

scholarly journals The shadow economy in South Asia: dynamic effects on clean energy consumption and environmental pollution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tayyab Sohail ◽  
Sana Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Majeed ◽  
Ahmed Usman ◽  
Zubaria Andlib
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Asian Countries

AbstractThis study explores the symmetric and asymmetric effects of the shadow economy on clean energy and air pollution of South Asian countries over the period 1991–2019. The short-run ARDL findings for the clean energy model suggest that shadow economy increases clean energy consumption in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, whereas this effect is negative for India and insignificant for other countries. The long-run results indicate the adverse impact only for India and the effects of tax revenue on clean energy are positively significant in Sri Lanka while negatively signiicant in Nepal and Bangladesh. Institutional quality significantly increases clean energy in Pakistan, India, and Nepal. However, in the case of Pakistan and Nepal, institutional quality deteriorated the environmental quality. The results for the pollution model confer that shadow economy increases emissions in Pakistan, decreases in Bangladesh and Nepal, and has no effect in India and Sri Lanka. The nonlinear ARDL results reveal that the positive components of the shadow economy significantly increase clean energy consumption only in Pakistan; however, the negative components of the shadow economy are negatively significant in all countries except Sri Lanka and Nepal. However, the negative component of the informal sector of the economy reduces CO2 emissions in India and increases CO2 emissions in Bangladesh and Nepal. The results offer important policy implications for achieving clean energy and better environmental quality in South Asian countries.

scholarly journals Energy Consumption in Agriculture Sector, environmental cleanliness and Economic Growth: An Empirical Evidence of South Asian Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zia Ullah Khan ◽  
Muhammad Khyzer Bin Dost ◽  
Muhammad Wasim Akram ◽  
Pirzada Sami Ullah Sabri
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Impact

This study plays its role in the literature by investigating the impact of energy consumption on agriculture sector, and environmental cleanliness on Gross Domestic Product, in five South Asian countries from the period of 1990 to 2015. Energy is now becoming a challenge for the South Asian countries especially country like Pakistan. Developing countries are in a race to gather more and more resource for the production of energy. The main objective of research is to examine the short-run and long-run relationship between economic growth and energy consumption on agriculture sector of economy in South Asian countries. Granger causality test and Error correction model is employed to get the results. The empirical results showed the presence of co-integration among the variables and it indicates gross domestic product has a positive relationship with energy consumption in agriculture sector and environmental cleanliness. Granger causality results showed that unidirectional causality is present between gross domestic product and agricultural sector while no causality is present among environment cleanliness.

scholarly journals U.S. Policy and Energy Security in South Asia: Economic Prospects and Strategic Implications

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Sááez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Energy Demands

South Asia's future energy consumption will be driven by continuing economic growth and demographic trends. The likely inability of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to meet burgeoning energy demands poses a threat to their energy security. U.S. policy in Asia constrains the ability of South Asian countries to enhance their energy security, either indigenously or through imports. This may have unintended consequences for U.S. strategic interests in South Asia in particular, and in Asia in general.

The effect of remittance on energy consumption: Panel cointegration and dynamic causality analysis for South Asian countries

Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 119684
Author(s):  
Md. Matiar Rahman ◽  
Shahadat Hosan ◽  
Shamal Chandra Karmaker ◽  
Andrew J. Chapman ◽  
Bidyut Baran Saha
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Panel Cointegration ◽  
Causality Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries

scholarly journals Energy – Growth Nexus- A Case of South Asian Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Saddam Hussain ◽  
Chunjiao Yu ◽  
Liu Wan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Omitted Variable Bias ◽  
Variable Bias ◽  
Macroeconomic Determinants ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is a hot issue in today's society. This paper aims to empirically verify the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth. This article analyzes the relation of energy consumption with the economic growth taking the case of South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) along with the macroeconomic determinants that affect the total economic growth – FDI growth, CPI rate and population growth in order to avoid omitted variable bias and misleading results. The time span of this study covers the period of 1980–2019. To examine the significant relation of these determinants and impact of energy consumption on economic growth, In-pooled regression, Fixed-effects, Bidirectional fixed effect, Random-effects, and GLS estimation regression model are used. The estimated results show a positive correlation of energy consumption and all other economic determinants with economic growth except CPI, where there is a negative correlation founded.

scholarly journals Panel Cointegration and Pooled Mean Group Estimations of Energy-Output Dynamics in South Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupam Das ◽  
Muhammad Akhtaruzzaman .
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Specific Effect ◽  
Panel Cointegration ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Pooled Mean Group ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Cointegration Tests

This study employs the panel cointegration and pooled mean group (PMG) techniques to examine the long run relationships between energy consumption and GDP for 5 South Asian countries from 1981 to 2009. Unit root and panel cointegration tests find a long run relationship between energy consumption and GDP after allowing for country-specific effect. Furthermore, we use the PMG technique to identify the magnitude of this relationship. Our results are consistent with the theory that suggests a role of energy use in GDP. On average, a 1% increase in energy consumption leads to a 0.61% increase in the long run GDP in South Asia from 1981 to 2009. Hence, it is apparent that energy is an important component to maintain the economic activities in these countries. These results have important implications for policy makers of South Asian countries which have experienced magnificent growth performance along with a sharp rise in consumption demand for energy in last few decades.

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