Environmental quality and its nexus with informal economy, corruption control, energy use, and socioeconomic aspects: the perspective of emerging economies
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Article Title | Environmental quality and its nexus with informal economy, corruption control, energy use, and socioeconomic aspects: the perspective of emerging economies |
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ERA Journal ID | 212685 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Sultana, Nahid (Author), Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur (Author), Khanam, Rasheda (Author) and Kabir, Zobaidul (Author) |
Journal Title | Heliyon |
Journal Citation | 8 (6), pp. 1-11 |
Article Number | e09569 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 2405-8440 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09569 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402200857X |
Abstract | This paper explores the impacts of informal economic activities and institutional capacity, particularly, corruption control on the environmental quality degradation of emerging economies under the prevailing socio-economic conditions and energy use patterns of the countries. The study utilizes key environmental degradation indicators: Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, ecological footprints (EFs), and Nitrous Oxide (NO) emissions, and a panel dataset of 15 emerging countries for the period 2002–2019 to undertake an empirical investigation. The pooled mean group (PMG)-ARDL estimator, Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS), Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and Augmented Mean Group (AMG) methods have been applied as empirical investigation techniques. The empirical findings reveal that in the long-run informal economic activities positively affect the environmental quality with fewer recorded emissions of CO2 and EFs while these activities affect negatively to NO emissions. This study has also found that corruption control improves environmental quality by reducing EFs and NO emissions but works to the opposite by increasing recorded CO2 emissions. An increase in economic growth and renewable energy consumption improves environmental quality in emerging countries, while consumption of non-renewable energy degrades the environmental quality. The robust empirical findings advocate policy initiatives for intense monitoring of informal activities and implementation of indirect tax policy to regulate informal activities and the pollution they cause. Careful measures of corruption control and initiatives to bring the informal economic activities into a formal framework are suggested to reduce CO2 and NO emissions. An increase in economic growth with more focus on renewables and phasing out non-renewables can ensure green growth in emerging countries. |
Keywords | CO2 emissions; Ecological footprints; Economic growth; Informal economy; Renewable and non-renewable energy; Corruption control |
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Is part of | The informal sector and its impact on sustainable development: An empirical study on urban perspective |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 380204. Panel data analysis |
380105. Environment and resource economics | |
Public Notes | This article is part of a UniSQ Thesis by publication. See Related Output. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Business |
University of Newcastle | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q7646/environmental-quality-and-its-nexus-with-informal-economy-corruption-control-energy-use-and-socioeconomic-aspects-the-perspective-of-emerging-economies
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