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Energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981-2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More interestingly, we show that real GDP exhibits a quadratic relationship with CO2 emissions for the region as a whole. However, although the estimated long-run coefficients of income and its square satisfy the EKC hypothesis in most studied countries, the turning points are very low in some cases and very high in other cases, hence providing poor evidence in support of the EKC hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission levels as they may achieve CO2 emissions reduction via energy conservation without negative long-run effects on economic growth.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3726
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Energy and the Macroeconomy
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
- Subject
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Environmental Kuznets Curve
carbon dioxide emissions
energy consumption
growth
Kohlendioxid
Luftverunreinigung
Energiekonsum
Sozialprodukt
Environmental Kuznets Curve
MENA-Staaten
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi
Youssef, Adel Ben
M'Henni, Hatem
Rault, Christophe
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi
- Youssef, Adel Ben
- M'Henni, Hatem
- Rault, Christophe
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2012
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