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Growth and determinants of CO2 emissions: evidence from selected Asian emerging economies

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The study analyzes the impact of economic growth, energy consumption, foreign direct investment inflows, population, population density, labor force, and trade openness on carbon dioxide emissions in seven emerging Asian economies over the period 1991–2017. To this end, it uses cross-section dependence test, second-generation unit root test, panel cointegration, and the bound test for cointegration and the autoregressive distributed lag estimations. The findings of the study are as follows: first, the kinked exponential growth is estimated for all the variables on the individual data set of seven countries. Second, the study finds a positive association of economic growth, energy consumption, population, and population density on carbon dioxide emissions. Third, it finds that the foreign direct investment inflows are negatively associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The paper also suggests potential implications and some future research avenues.

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  1. IPCC was set up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Meterological Organization (WMO) with an objective to disseminate information to the partner governments.

  2. Our analysis included only these seven Asian emerging economies due to limited availability of annual time series data points for excluded countries

  3. Refer to Table 1 for detailed description of variables.

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    Aqib Mujtaba & Debanam Priyam Priyadarshi Joshi

  2. School of Economics, Faculty of Management, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra- 182 320, Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, India

    Pabitra Kumar Jena

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All three authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript. More specifically, Aqib Mujtaba has contributed to the conception, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation, whereas supervising, drafting, and editing of this research article was contributed by Pabitra Kumar Jena and D P Priyadarshi Joshi.

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Mujtaba, A., Jena, P.K. & Joshi, D.P.P. Growth and determinants of CO2 emissions: evidence from selected Asian emerging economies. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 39357–39369 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13078-3

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