Export Diversification and CO2 Emissions: An Augmented Environmental Kuznets Curve. (1st September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mania, Elodie
• Is Part Of: Journal of international development. Volume 32:Number 2(2020:Mar.)
• Page Start: 168
• Page End: 185
• Publication Date: 2019-09-01
• Subjects: export diversification -- pollution -- CO2 emissions -- environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis -- economic development; Economic development projects -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Periodicals; Economic development -- Periodicals; 330.91724
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.3441
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0954-1748

Abstract

Abstract: The mitigation of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been the objective of successive negotiations and agreements between nations. At the same time, there is a consensus on the virtues of export diversification for the development of less advanced countries. This article investigates the effect of export diversification on CO2 emissions in the context of an environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in 98 developed and developing countries during the period 1995–2013. Using short‐run (system Generalized Method of Moments) and long‐run (Pooled Mean Group) estimation methods, we find that the environmental Kuznets curve is valid and that export diversification has a positive effect on CO2 emissions. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.