Carbon dioxide emissions, total factor productivity, ICT, trade, financial development, and energy consumption: testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Tunisia
| Autor: | Fethi Amri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Distributed lag
Energy-Generating Resources Tunisia Financial Management Natural resource economics 020209 energy Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Inventions Kuznets curve 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics Environmental Chemistry Renewable Energy Total factor productivity Environmental quality 0105 earth and related environmental sciences business.industry General Medicine Energy consumption Carbon Dioxide Sustainable Development Pollution Renewable energy Models Economic Information and Communications Technology Value (economics) Economic Development Environmental Pollution Information Technology business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25:33691-33701 |
| ISSN: | 1614-7499 0944-1344 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-018-3331-1 |
| Popis: | The main objective of this study is to examine the linkage between CO2 emissions, total factor productivity as a measure of income, information and communication technology (ICT), trade, financial development, and energy consumption in Tunisia from 1975 to 2014. To achieve this goal, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) with the break point method is performed. The results demonstrate the rejection of the Kuznets environmental curve (EKC) hypothesis by obtaining a higher value of the long-term total factor productivity parameter compared to the short-term one. Moreover, our result shows an insignificant impact of ICT on CO2 emissions as a measure of pollution. In addition, trade, financial development, and energy consumption affect negatively the environmental quality. As a result, Tunisian policymakers should enhance the total factor productivity, expand the information and communication technology, further develop the financial sector, enhance the share of renewable energy consumption, and reduce the energy consumption resulting in import and export goods. These goals will be achieved by improving Tunisia’s technological and innovation capacity, enhancing the use of ICT in transport, building, and industry sectors considered as the most pollutant ones, and creating renewable energy projects. |
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