Artikel

Governance, urbanization, and pollution: A cross-country analysis of global south region

This paper investigates the impact urbanization, industrialization, corruption, human development, energy consumption, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 61 developing economies of the global south region of Asia, Africa, and Latin America during the period 1990-2015. The empirical results show that the effect of corruption on CO2 emissions is indeed heterogeneous and contradictory. Specifically, results exhibit that due to immature economic system, and policy paralysis, corruption penetrates the developing economies, and eventually cause carbon emission and pollution. Furthermore, results reveal that FDI guided by clean development mechanism and involved in emission reduction projects in the developing economies play a predominant role to curb the CO2 emission, pollution, and environmental degradation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Cogent Economics & Finance ; ISSN: 2332-2039 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-24 ; Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
Corruption
governance
pollution
urbanization
human development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dash, Devi Prasad
Ranjan Behera, Smruti
Rao, D. Tripati
Sethi, Narayan
Nanthakumar Loganathan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Taylor & Francis
(wo)
Abingdon
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1080/23322039.2020.1742023
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Dash, Devi Prasad
  • Ranjan Behera, Smruti
  • Rao, D. Tripati
  • Sethi, Narayan
  • Nanthakumar Loganathan
  • Taylor & Francis

Entstanden

  • 2020

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