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Development Studies
Maxwell Chukwudi Udeagha, Edwin Muchapondwa
Summary: South Africa is faced with the dilemma of choosing between advancing its economy and protecting the environment, similar to other developing nations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide a strong foundation for investigating this issue. The current research examines the combined impacts of economic policy uncertainty, fiscal decentralization, and green innovation on environmental sustainability in South Africa, and the empirical findings support the environmental Kuznets curve framework.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Cuifang Zhang, Xiandeng Xiang
Summary: Improving fiscal management and resource efficiency is crucial for resource-rich economies, and this study explores the impact of fiscal decentralization and ecological policy stringency on resource consumption.
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Environmental Sciences
Yancui Han
Summary: This study constructs a theoretical analysis framework between fiscal decentralization, environmental regulation, and green economy efficiency (GEE) based on data from 30 regions in China from 2008 to 2020. The findings reveal significant differences in GEE among regions and variations in the effects of key factors on GEE at both national and regional levels.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Munir Ahmad, Elma Satrovic
Summary: This study investigates the influence of fiscal decentralization on the relationship between economic complexity, government intervention, and energy and carbon efficiency. The findings suggest that economic complexity decreases energy efficiency, while government intervention decreases energy and carbon intensity. Additionally, expenditure and revenue decentralization contribute to energy and carbon efficiency and moderate the effects of economic complexity and government intervention on environmental sustainability.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Najaf Iqbal, Kashif Raza Abbasi, Riazullah Shinwari, Wan Guangcai, Munir Ahmad, Kai Tang
Summary: Achieving carbon neutrality is crucial for both developed and developing countries, with strategies such as export diversification and eco-innovation playing significant roles. The study suggests that export diversification and fiscal decentralization may increase carbon emissions, while renewable energy consumption and environmental-related technological innovation ensure environmental improvements. Short-term causal links were found running from fiscal decentralization, export diversification, and environmental-related technological innovation to carbon emissions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yunpeng Sun, Weimin Guan, Asif Razzaq, Mohsin Shahzad, Nguyen Binh An
Summary: This research examines the asymmetric impact of fiscal decentralization, green investment, and renewable energy consumption on ecological footprints in selected OECD member states. The study also explores the moderating role of fiscal decentralization in promoting green investment and environmental sustainability. The findings suggest that fiscal decentralization, green investment, and renewable energy consumption play a significant role in reducing ecological footprints, with varying effects across different quantiles.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yuanting Xia, Wenxiu Hu, Zhenxing Su
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on fiscal sustainability and finds that it has a negative effect. The study also highlights that economic policy uncertainty primarily affects fiscal sustainability through the social financing scale.
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Economics
Filomena Pietrovito, Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Giuliano Resce, Antonio Sciala
Summary: Cross-country income inequality has decreased while within-country income inequality has increased. Governments have implemented fiscal decentralization policies, devolving decision-making powers to sub-national levels of government. This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and intra-regional income redistribution, finding that income redistribution within regions is negatively associated with fiscal decentralization, particularly revenue decentralization.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2023)
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Economics
Amir Arjomandi, Hassan F. Gholipour, Reza Tajaddini, Charles Harvie
Summary: This study explores the link between environmental policy stringency and spending and the growth of environmental GDP and productivity. It reveals that government expenditure on environmental protection has a significantly stimulatory effect on national output in the short-term, but in the long run, tighter environmental policies and higher environmental expenditure may slow down 'green' GDP and productivity growth.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chaokai Xue, Muhammad Shahbaz, Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad, Avik Sinha
Summary: The impact of clean energy consumption on CO2 emissions in France, as the third largest European economy, from 1987 to 2019 was analyzed. The study found that clean energy consumption does not contribute to emissions reduction in the long run, while economic policy uncertainty poses a threat to environmental sustainability by increasing emissions levels. Economic growth boosts CO2 emissions, while urbanization supports environmental quality.
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Environmental Sciences
Bibhuti Ranjan Mishra, Aviral Kumar Arjun, Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Summary: In recent years, fiscal decentralization has been advocated as a means to improve environmental quality by granting more financial authority to sub-national governments. This study examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth and carbon emissions in India from 1996 to 2021 using econometric models. The findings suggest that expenditure decentralization has asymmetric effects on economic growth and carbon emissions, while revenue decentralization helps reduce carbon emissions in both the short and long term.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chunmei Li, Abbas Ali Chandio, Usman Farooq, Jam Ghulam Murtaza Sahito, Ge He
Summary: This study reveals that increasing fiscal expenditure on energy conservation and environmental protection does not have a direct impact on environmental equity, but it has a significant indirect positive effect through fiscal decentralization. The impact of green public consumption policy on environmental equity varies in the eastern, central, and western parts of China.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Xiaolong Li, Muhammad Zeeshan Younas, Zubaria Andlib, Sana Ullah, Sidra Sohail, Muhammad Hafeez
Summary: Expenditure decentralization has asymmetric effects on economic growth and CO2 emissions in Pakistan, with positive and negative fluctuations affecting them differently. The impact of revenue decentralization also varies, reducing economic growth and CO2 emissions in both positive and negative shocks.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Melat Sima, Peng Liang, Zhou Qingjie
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth and finds that it has significant positive effects on both developed and developing countries.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hetong Wang, Shaozhou Qi, Chaobo Zhou, Jingjie Zhou, Xiaoyan Huang
Summary: The Green Credit Guidelines in China have a significant positive impact on the quality of enterprise green innovation, especially in state-owned enterprises and more developed regions. Fiscal decentralization can positively influence enterprise green innovation, and the improvement in green innovation can further increase economic returns for enterprises.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Samia Zahra, Dilawar Khan, Muhammad Nouman
Summary: The study reveals significant impacts of public development expenditures, total population, GDP, and energy consumption on Pakistan's ecological footprint, while public tax, non-tax revenue, and current public expenditures have reducing effects. To achieve environmental targets, increasing public expenditures in public and social sectors and expanding the tax base for public revenue are recommended.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kenneth R. Szulczyk, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb
Summary: The economic evaluation of using hemp, jatropha, and kenaf as feedstocks for biodiesel production in Malaysia shows that hemp and kenaf are economically feasible and sustainable, while jatropha is not economically viable without valuable coproducts. The production of hemp and kenaf biodiesel also has positive impacts on agricultural employment and carbon dioxide emissions reduction.
Article
Development Studies
Zeeshan Khan, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Taimoor Hassan, Changyong Zhang, Khalid Eltayeb Elfaki
Summary: Efficient resource allocation and transition to cleaner energy sources are crucial for minimizing negative externalities from fossil fuel dependency. Environmentally friendly trade policies are important due to global trade expansion and comparative advantage. This paper examines the relationship between international trade, renewable energy consumption, energy efficiency, and consumption-based carbon emissions (CBCE) in China. The findings show that GDP and imports are directly linked to CBCE in the long run, while exports, energy efficiency, and renewable energy consumption have a negative impact on CBCE in both the long run and short run. Exporting countries can reduce CBCE by sharing and adopting environmentally friendly technologies, while renewable energy and energy efficiency contribute to the improvement of environmental quality. The research has policy implications, suggesting the need for stringent policies aligning trade orientation with environmental quality and focusing on high-energy-using industries and alternative clean energy sources to lower CBCE.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Jeremy Clark, Abey P. Philip
Summary: This study examines the time-varying effects of oil rent dependence on the Malaysian manufacturing sector, and finds that the impact of oil rents is regime-dependent and exhibits a non-linear threshold effect.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Economics
Li Zheng, Ling Yuan, Zeeshan Khan, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Leilei Zhang
Summary: Given the relevance of global issues, this study examines the role of energy efficiency in greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on the Group of Seven (G7) economies. Advanced panel econometric methods are used to analyze the data from 1990 to 2020. The results show that energy efficiency, digitalization, and environmental innovations play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while economic growth is a major driver of such emissions. The study suggests increasing investment and promoting these factors in the G7 economies to achieve net zero emissions.
Article
Environmental Studies
Zeeshan Khan, Mohammad Razib Hossain, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Changyong Zhang
Summary: This study aims to explore the aggregated and disaggregated impacts of natural resources on economic growth and the controlling role of carbon emissions, human capital, and green growth. The findings validate the existence of the resource curse hypothesis among the G-7 nations, indicating a negative relationship between natural resource availability and economic development. It suggests that the G-7 nations should establish a stable regional market to absorb price volatility and control energy demand and supply mismatch. Additionally, minimizing mining costs and environmental impacts through technological advancement is recommended. Green growth is found to hinder economic development among the G-7 nations due to reduced extraction and consumption of fossil fuels, while human capital development and CO2 emissions are beneficial. However, CO2 emissions-induced development is discouraged considering the G-7 nations' focus on green growth, and careful evaluation of trade-offs between green growth and the resource curse is advised.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zeeshan Khan, Ilham Haouas, Hai Hong Trinh, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Changyong Zhang
Summary: This study examines the role of financial inclusion on energy poverty in six emerging economies from 2004 to 2019. The empirical results show that financial inclusion, renewable energy electricity, globalization, income, human capital index, and energy investment are key determinants of energy poverty in these economies. The study provides important implications for researchers and policymakers in mitigating the consequences of energy poverty and developing financial systems to address related issues.
Article
Economics
Zeeshan Khan, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Changyong Zhang, Kangyin Dong
Summary: One of the key elements for achieving sustainable development is financial inclusion, which has a positive impact on energy efficiency. This study constructs a parametric-based index to measure financial inclusion in terms of availability, accessibility, and usage, and finds that it increases energy efficiency across all quantiles. Green innovation, human capital, and political risk also have a supportive effect on energy efficiency. However, the impact of political risk initially negative and later becomes positive. Policy implications include promoting financial inclusion, green innovation, human capital, and improving the political risk profile to enhance energy efficiency.
Article
Environmental Studies
Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Kenneth R. Szulczyk, Samia Zahra, Tanusree Chakravarty Mukherjee
Summary: This paper extends the literature on the natural resource curse by introducing the role of innovation in the relationship between natural resource dependence and economic growth using a non-linear model. It suggests that innovation can help countries overcome the resource curse by increasing investment productivity and creating competitive products that resist exchange rate appreciation. The empirical results from BRICS countries between 1990 and 2018 establish important relationships, including the U-shaped non-linear relationship between natural resource dependence and economic growth, the mitigating effect of innovation on the negative impact of natural resources, and the importance of reducing exchange rate appreciation through innovation.
Article
Environmental Studies
Xiao Gu, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Shahid Ali, Zeeshan Khan, Changyong Zhang, Khusniddin Fakhriddinovich Uktamov
Summary: Natural resources and risk factors are crucial for a country's economic progress. Previous studies on the influence of natural resources and risks on economic growth have used incomplete specifications and conventional estimators. This study examines the influence of natural resources, geopolitical risk, and economic risk on the economic growth of the US economy from 1990 to 2020, while also considering the role of research and development expenditure. The findings suggest that geopolitical risk has a negative but insignificant impact on economic growth, while economic risk and research and development expenditure are significant drivers of US economic growth. Robustness tests using Bootstrap Quantile Regression support these results. Based on the empirical findings, this study recommends strengthening institutions, reducing economic and geopolitical risks, and increasing investment in research and development for economic security.
Article
Economics
Yanyan Jiang, Mohammad Razib Hossain, Zeeshan Khan, Junying Chen, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb
Summary: Research and development play a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, environment-related research and development expenditures and renewable energy research and development are important for a sustainable environment. This study focuses on the role of a knowledge-based economy in sustainable development and emphasizes the importance of increasing research and development expenditures and promoting green innovation for achieving sustainable development.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Bo Wang, Jun Zhao, Zeeshan Khan, Khusniddin Fakhriddinovich Uktamov, Changyong Zhang
Summary: Unlike previous research, which focused on the linear impact of natural resources on economic performance, this study examines both the linear and non-linear impact of natural resource exploitation on multidimensional financial inclusion. The findings indicate that natural resources have a negative linear and non-linear influence on financial inclusion, contradicting the inverted U-shaped curve hypothesis. Additionally, globalization and renewable energy consumption are shown to increase financial inclusion, while political and financial risk have a negative impact and economic risk has a positive impact.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Menghan Li, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Eyup Dogan, Xiao Gu, Hong Zhang
Summary: This study examines the influencing factors of ecological footprints in China from the perspective of COP27. The empirical results indicate that economic growth is the significant factor in environmental quality degradation in China, while improving renewable energy usage, research and development, and foreign direct investment can reduce the country's ecological footprint. Therefore, the study recommends increased investment in these areas.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
