Ahmed F, Kousar S, Pervaiz A, Trinidad-Segovia JE, del Pilar Casado-Belmonte M, Ahmed W. Role of green innovation, trade and energy to promote green economic growth: a case of
South Asian Nations.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022;
29:6871-6885. [PMID:
34462851 PMCID:
PMC8404544 DOI:
10.1007/s11356-021-15881-4]
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Abstract
The objective of this study is to contribute to the existing debate of green economic growth by empirically investigating the role of cleaner energy production, green innovation, and green trade in green economic growth in the context of South Asian countries. For this purpose, the study collects the data of South Asian Economies for 2000-2018 from different sources such as world development indicators (WDI), International Energy Statistics (IES), and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics. The study applied Pesaran's (2007) second-generation unit root test to test the stationarity of the data. Wasteland's (2007) test of cointegration was applied to examine the long-run association among modeled variables. The study confirmed the long-run association among modeled variables that turn to be stationary at the first differences. Moreover, the study applied fully modified least square (FMOLS) and dynamic least square (DOLS) to estimate the empirical results of the study. Results of the study show that the production of clean energy, green innovation, and green trade positively contributes to the green economic growth of South Asian Economies Graphical abstract.
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