Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: Empirical Evidence from East and South-East Asia

SRPN: Carbon Reduction (Topic) Pub Date : 2013-01-11 DOI:10.5539/IJEF.V5N2P86

M. Alam, Nurul Kabir

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This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in the East and South-East Asian countries focused on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, using data from environmental performance index (EPI) in 2010. Both pollution and eco-efficiency measures, two components of environmental sustainability, are considered as dependent variables while GDP per capita is used as an independent variable. Besides independent variable, the study also considers population density and civil and political liberty index (CIVLIB) as control variables and East and South-East Asia as a dummy variable. By using ordinary least square (OLS) method, this study reveals that while the increase of the GDP per capita appears to have positive impact on the pollution measures, it is found mix (both positive and negative) results on eco-efficiency measures. These findings prove the hypothesis of environmental Kuznets curve partially but not entirely. We conclude the paper by suggesting that the policy makers should give priority to the eco-efficiency measures along with pollution measures in order to ensure environmental sustainability in the process of economic development.

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经济增长与环境可持续性:来自东亚和东南亚的经验证据

本文利用2010年环境绩效指数(EPI)数据，基于环境库兹涅茨曲线假设，探讨了东亚和东南亚国家的经济增长与环境可持续性之间的关系。环境可持续性的两个组成部分污染和生态效率措施被视为因变量，而人均国内生产总值被用作自变量。除自变量外，该研究还考虑了人口密度和公民和政治自由指数(CIVLIB)作为控制变量，东亚和东南亚作为虚拟变量。通过使用普通最小二乘(OLS)方法，本研究表明，虽然人均GDP的增加似乎对污染措施有积极影响，但在生态效率措施上发现了混合(正负)结果。这些发现部分地证明了环境库兹涅茨曲线假说。最后，建议决策者在采取污染治理措施的同时，应优先采取生态效益措施，以确保经济发展过程中环境的可持续性。

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