Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development
Maintaining a balance between the well-being of the economy and the environment has become a top priority for governments globally. In the contemporary age, world economies, particularly the emerging ones like MINT nations, highlight the need for eco-friendly economic expansion. The MINT nations are...
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| author | Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo Mehmet Ağa Ephraim Bonah Agyekum Salah Kamel Mohamed F. El-Naggar Mohamed F. El-Naggar |
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| description | Maintaining a balance between the well-being of the economy and the environment has become a top priority for governments globally. In the contemporary age, world economies, particularly the emerging ones like MINT nations, highlight the need for eco-friendly economic expansion. The MINT nations are thriving economically but are having difficulty reducing their Ecological footprint (EF). This paper aimed to determine if factors such as population density, renewable energy, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and financial development impact ecological footprint in the MINT countries between 1990 and 2018. The study applied ample advanced econometrics such as method of moments quantile regression (MMQR), augmented mean group (AMG) and Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG). The overall results indicated that the variables are integrated at the first difference and are cointegrated. The AMG, CCEMG and MMQR results reveal that economic growth deteriorates ecological well-being by promoting the EF while foreign direct investment, population density and renewable energy assists in enhancing it by mitigating the EF in the MINT nations. In addition, financial development does not exert a significant effect on EF. The Dumitrescu Hurlin Panel Causality results show unidirectional causality from economic growth, financial development, population density, and renewable energy to EF. Based on these results policy recommendations are suggested. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca80e7a792e942efbd253db217a202552022-12-22T02:57:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-12-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.10683791068379Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable developmentTomiwa Sunday Adebayo0Mehmet Ağa1Ephraim Bonah Agyekum2Salah Kamel3Mohamed F. El-Naggar4Mohamed F. El-Naggar5Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, TurkeyDepartment of Accounting and Finance Department, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, TurkeyDepartment of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University Named After the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, RussiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, EgyptDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Power and Machines Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Helwan, EgyptMaintaining a balance between the well-being of the economy and the environment has become a top priority for governments globally. In the contemporary age, world economies, particularly the emerging ones like MINT nations, highlight the need for eco-friendly economic expansion. The MINT nations are thriving economically but are having difficulty reducing their Ecological footprint (EF). This paper aimed to determine if factors such as population density, renewable energy, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and financial development impact ecological footprint in the MINT countries between 1990 and 2018. The study applied ample advanced econometrics such as method of moments quantile regression (MMQR), augmented mean group (AMG) and Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG). The overall results indicated that the variables are integrated at the first difference and are cointegrated. The AMG, CCEMG and MMQR results reveal that economic growth deteriorates ecological well-being by promoting the EF while foreign direct investment, population density and renewable energy assists in enhancing it by mitigating the EF in the MINT nations. In addition, financial development does not exert a significant effect on EF. The Dumitrescu Hurlin Panel Causality results show unidirectional causality from economic growth, financial development, population density, and renewable energy to EF. Based on these results policy recommendations are suggested.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1068379/fullpopulation densityforeign directecological footprintrenewable energysustainable development |
| spellingShingle | Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo Mehmet Ağa Ephraim Bonah Agyekum Salah Kamel Mohamed F. El-Naggar Mohamed F. El-Naggar Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development Frontiers in Environmental Science population density foreign direct ecological footprint renewable energy sustainable development |
| title | Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development |
| title_full | Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development |
| title_fullStr | Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development |
| title_short | Do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in MINT nations? Implications for sustainable development |
| title_sort | do renewable energy consumption and financial development contribute to environmental quality in mint nations implications for sustainable development |
| topic | population density foreign direct ecological footprint renewable energy sustainable development |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1068379/full |
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