Does environmental degradation shackle economic growth? A panel data investigation on 11 Asian countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Azam
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Data Investigation

Investigating the Lee thesis: how bad is democracy for Asian economies?

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Asian Context

This paper discusses the hypothesis that democracy hurts economic growth and development, also known as the Lee thesis, and discusses why one could expect dictatorship to be particularly beneficial for growth in the Asian context. Three general theoretical arguments in support of the Lee thesis are then presented. However, the empirical results, based on panel data analysis on more than 20 Asian countries, do not support the hypothesis that dictatorship increases economic growth in Asia. There is no significant, average effect of democracy on growth. Asian dictatorships do invest a larger fraction of their GDP than democracies, but they are worse at generating high enrollment ratios in education after primary school.

scholarly journals Impact of Demographic Variables on Economic Growth in South Asian Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Nisar Ahmad ◽  
Sara Nayyab
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Total Fertility Rate ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Impact

This study find the impact of demographic variables on economic growth in selected South Asian countries; Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka using panel data from 1976 to 2017. Fertility rate and life expectancy are used as demographic variables and GDP is used to indicate the economic growth. Panel unit root tests including Levin-Lin & Chu, Im-Pesaran & Shin, ADF-Fisher χ2, PP-Fisher χ2 are applied to check the stationary of variables. Pedroni and Kao Panel Co-integration are employed to test the co-integration among variables. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) estimators are obtained for long run relationship. Results show that total fertility rate and life expectancy have significant impact on economic growth in these four South Asian countries. For example, one unit increase in total fertility rate depresses the economic growth by 0.106 units. However, economic growth is accelerated by 0.196 units due to one year increase in life expectancy.

scholarly journals Remittances and Economic Growth Tie in Selected South Asian Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Md. Nezum Uddin ◽  
Mohammed Jashim Uddin ◽  
Md. Joynal Uddin ◽  
Monir Ahmmed
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Panel Data Estimation ◽  
Panel Data Estimation Techniques ◽  
Causality Tests ◽  
Heated Debate

Remittances are regarded one of the foremost financial resources globally. Over the past century, in the developing economy, there is a heated debate on the sources of economic growth. The current paper attempts to analyze how economic growth is being impacted by remittance in five selected South Asian countries between the period 1975 and 2017. Estimated results from panel-data estimation techniques exhibit a positive relation between economic growth and remittance in these countries. The results from Granger-causality tests suggest that remittance plays a catalyst role to bring economic growth but economic growth doesn’t play any role to bring remittance while Dumitrescu Hurlin Causality tests found a bi-directional relationship. Important finding of the study is that remittance boost economic growth in South Asian region.

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.

Unemployment and Economic Growth of Developing Asian Countries: A Panel Data Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran ◽  
◽  
Khurrum S. Mughal ◽  
Aneel Salman ◽  
Nedim Makarevic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries

scholarly journals Regionalisme Isu Lingkungan Asia Tenggara (1997-2000)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Gema Ramadhan Bastari
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Mutual Identity

Southeast Asia is an ever growing region. Since 1970, the region hasshown a strongperformance in economic growth and it’s still continued even today. However, the strong economic growth of Southeast Asia also lead to serious externalities in a form of environmental degradation. Deforestation and pollution which has been done in one country affected the nearby countries as well, decreasing the air quality in urban area, and creating many cases of economic losses and health issues. At one point, the Southeast Asian countries realized that environmental degradation is a transnational problem which needed a transnational solution. Regionalism, which is facilitated by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), became the solution they seek. This paper attempts to explain the process of Environmental regionalism that has happened in Southeast Asia from 1977-2000. The paper concludes that the process of environmental regionalism in Southeast Asia is still stucked in the third phase of regionalism. Lacks of mutual identity between ASEAN members prevents environmental regionalism process in Southeast Asia to advance to the fourth phase. However, the paper also shown some probabilities for it to happen in near future. Keyword: ASEAN, Environment, Regionalism, Regionness,

scholarly journals How Do Population and Urbanization Cause Environmental Degradation in South Asian Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-809
Author(s):  
Noreen Safdar ◽  
Shezza Ashraf ◽  
Fatima Farooq ◽  
Junaid Qadir
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Causality Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Population Urbanization

The following study shows the economic consequences of population and environmental degradation in selected South Asian Countries for the time period 2000- 2018. Panel cointegration shows the long-run association among population, urbanization, environment and economic growth. By using PMG estimation technique, the results show that environmental degradation has a negative influence on economic growth while the urban population has a progressive impact on economic growth while the total population has a negative impact on economic growth. The results of causality analysis show that there is bidirectional causality among all variables which indicates that population, urbanization, environment and economic growth are causing each other. It is also noticed by the causality analysis that population, urbanization and economic growth are causing environmental degradation in south Asian countries. Further the results show that there is cross-sectional dependency among all variables in selected countries which reveals that all these countries should make collaborative strategies to increase economic growth and to cope up the problem of environmental degradation.

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