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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Air Pollution in the Economic Community of West African States region: What Influence Does Tax Expenditure Have?

This study examines how foreign direct investment affects air pollution in West African countries, finding that tax policy can influence whether economic investment leads to environmental improvement or degradation.

2023 Journal of Environmental Protection
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Mitigating environmental degradation with institutional quality and foreign direct investment (FDI): new evidence from asymmetric approach

Researchers used asymmetric econometric modeling on Chilean quarterly data from 1996–2018 to find that institutional quality and renewable energy reduce carbon emissions, while foreign direct investment and fossil fuels increase them regardless of whether shocks are positive or negative.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 44 citations
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Analyzing the linkage among CO2 emissions, economic growth, tourism, and energy consumption in the Asian economies

Researchers analyzed the long-run relationships between economic growth, tourism, energy use, and CO2 emissions in Asian economies from 1995–2017, finding evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and that tourism significantly contributes to environmental degradation, with a coefficient of 0.132 linking tourism growth to increased carbon emissions across the region.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 90 citations
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Greenfield, Mergers & Acquisitions, Energy Consumption, and Environmental Performance in selected SAARC and ASEAN countries

This economic study examined how different types of foreign direct investment affect energy consumption and environmental performance in various countries. Understanding the relationship between economic activity and environmental outcomes is relevant to predicting how plastic production and pollution change with development.

2019 Universiti Utara Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Utara Malaysia) 6 citations
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The Progressive Correlation Between Carbon Emission, Economic Growth, Energy Use, and Oil Consumption by the Most Prominent Contributors to Travel and Tourism GDPs

Researchers applied panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling to data from 18 leading tourism-GDP countries spanning 1995-2019, finding that economic growth, energy use, and oil consumption positively drove carbon emissions, while tourist arrivals showed a modest negative association with emissions in both the long and short run.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 18 citations
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Decomposition of air pollution in Indonesia

This study decomposed CO2 emissions in Indonesia from 1995–2022 using structural variables including urbanization, trade liberalization, fossil energy use, and renewable energy adoption, finding that fossil energy is the dominant driver of Indonesia's air pollution and that policy stringency significantly moderates emission levels.

2025 BIO Web of Conferences
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Green finance and foreign direct investment–environmental sustainability nexuses in emerging countries: new insights from the environmental Kuznets curve

Researchers identified asymmetric relationships between green finance, foreign direct investment, and environmental sustainability in emerging countries using nonlinear ARDL modeling, finding heterogeneous effects that support the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.

2023 Frontiers in Environmental Science 46 citations
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Mitigating Environmental Degradation With Institutional Quality and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): New Evidence From Asymmetric Approach

This study examined how institutional quality and foreign direct investment affect environmental degradation in Chile, finding that good governance and selective investment can help balance economic growth with environmental protection. Stronger institutions are also needed to enforce plastic waste regulations that limit microplastic pollution.

2021 Research Square (Research Square) 9 citations
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Relationship between Globalization and Environmental Degradation in Low Income Countries: An Application of Kuznet Curve

This study examined how globalization and economic growth relate to environmental degradation in low-income countries, testing whether a Kuznets curve pattern (pollution rising then falling with income) exists. The results have implications for understanding how plastic consumption and waste generation change with development.

2019 Indian Journal of Science and Technology 17 citations
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Assessing the impact of governance and health expenditures on carbon emissions in China: Role of environmental regulation

Researchers analysed the relationship between governance quality, health expenditures, environmental regulation, and carbon emissions in China from 1984 to 2018, finding an inverted U-shaped environmental Kuznets curve and that stronger environmental regulation helps decouple economic growth from carbon output.

2022 Frontiers in Public Health 7 citations
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FDI, Trade, and Finance: Catalysts for Green Growth in ASEAN-5

Researchers applied fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) estimation to investigate how foreign direct investment, trade openness, and financial development affect green economic growth across ASEAN-5 countries from 2010 to 2021. Results showed that FDI and financial development have positive effects on green growth while trade openness has a negative impact, with policy implications for promoting environmentally responsible investment and stricter trade-related environmental regulations.

2024 Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought
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The influence of economic development, capital formation, and internet use on environmental degradation in Saudi Arabia

This study examined the relationship between economic growth, capital formation, internet usage, and carbon emissions in Saudi Arabia from 1995 to 2020. Researchers found that internet use significantly contributes to rising greenhouse gas emissions, and they recommend policymakers consider transitioning from conventional to renewable energy sources to achieve sustainable development.

2023 Future Business Journal 9 citations
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Environmental Stringency and International Trade: A Look Across the Globe

Researchers examined the relationship between environmental regulatory stringency and international trade across countries, testing whether stricter environmental regulations lead to shifts in the location of pollution-intensive industries. The analysis found mixed evidence for the pollution haven hypothesis.

2024 Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future
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Neutralizing the surging environmental pollution amidst renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Ghana: Insights from ARDL and quantile regression analysis

This study analyzed the relationship between renewable energy consumption, economic growth, electricity access, and environmental degradation in Ghana from 1993 to 2020 using ARDL and quantile regression models. Results supported a partial Environmental Kuznets Curve, finding that renewable energy adoption reduces pollution at higher income levels.

2024 Sustainable Social Development 8 citations
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Postmaterialism and Environmental Protection Revisited: Domestic Plastic Bag Regulations, 1992–2019

Researchers used a hazard model to analyze plastic bag regulations across 133 countries from 1992 to 2019, finding that Global South countries that imported plastic waste were more likely to adopt domestic plastic bag bans or fees, challenging the postmaterialism hypothesis that wealthy countries lead environmental regulation.

2025 Global Environmental Politics
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The Environmental Impact of Sustainable Production and Spending: Evidence from Saudi Companies

Researchers examined how corporate renewable energy strategies under Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 influence environmental sustainability using generalized method of moments panel regressions and bivariate vector autoregression models across 113 Saudi firms from 2010 to 2024. The study addressed gaps in understanding decarbonization pathways in economies heavily dependent on fossil fuel production.

2025 International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
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Investigating the Influence of Renewable Energy Use and Innovative Investments in the Transportation Sector on Environmental Sustainability—A Nonlinear Assessment

Researchers used advanced statistical methods to examine how renewable energy adoption and innovative investments in the transportation sector affect environmental sustainability in France from 1995 to 2020. They found that increasing renewable energy use significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions, while certain transport sector investments had mixed environmental effects. The study provides evidence that transitioning to renewable energy sources is a key driver of improved environmental outcomes.

2025 Sustainability 3 citations
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Analysis of the spatio-temporal evolution of sustainable land use in China under the carbon emission trading scheme: A measurement idea based on the DID model

Researchers applied a difference-in-differences estimation model to assess the effect of China's carbon emission trading scheme on sustainable land use across provinces from a spatio-temporal perspective. The scheme improved sustainable land use in pilot areas from both economic and environmental dimensions, with effects concentrated in eastern regions and urban agglomerations including the Pearl River Delta.

2023 PLoS ONE 5 citations
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Reconciling industrialization and environmental protection for sustainable development in Bangladesh: The textile and apparel industry case

This paper analyzed the Bangladesh textile and apparel industry's path toward reconciling rapid industrialization with environmental protection, identifying policy measures needed to reduce pollution while sustaining economic growth.

2023 European Journal of Sustainable Development Research 5 citations
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The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China

Researchers analyzed data from 44 coastal port cities in China between 2010 and 2021 to examine how public environmental concern affects port sustainability. They found that public environmental concern significantly improves port sustainability, primarily by increasing local government environmental investments, with digital infrastructure amplifying this positive effect.

2025 Frontiers in Marine Science 8 citations
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Does economic transition enhance environmental sustainability? The case of Russia

This study examines the relationship between Russia's post-Soviet economic transition (market orientation and global integration) and environmental sustainability indicators including CO2 emissions, analyzing whether liberalization improved or worsened the country's environmental trajectory.

2025 Environment Development and Sustainability 2 citations
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Exploring Asymmetric Nexus Between CO2 Emissions, Environmental Pollution, and Household Health Expenditure in China

A Chinese provincial dataset analysis found statistically significant asymmetric relationships between CO₂ emissions and environmental pollution with household health expenditure, confirming that greater pollution imposes higher healthcare costs on residents.

2021 Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 30 citations
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Can COVID-19 and environmental research in developing countries support these countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic?

Researchers used bibliometric analysis to assess COVID-19 and environmental research capacity in developing countries, finding — unexpectedly — that developing nations published more pandemic-environment studies than developed ones, with key themes including energy consumption impacts and the role of AI and big data in improving environmental outcomes.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21 citations
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Research and Development as a Moderating Variable for Sustainable Economic Performance: The Asian, European, and Kuwaiti Models

This is an economics and business study examining research and development spending as a moderating factor in the relationship between sustainability practices and economic performance. It is not related to environmental science or microplastics.

2020 Sustainability 12 citations