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Empirical Analysis of the EKC Hypothesis for SO2 Emissions in Selected Middle East and North African Countries

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  • Adel Ben Youssef

    (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur)

  • Mohamed El Hedi Arouri

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Hatem M'Henni

    (LARIME - Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mutations des Economies et des Entreprises [Tunis] - ESSECT - Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis - Université de Tunis)

  • Christophe Rault

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CESifo - Center for Economic Studies and Ifo for Economic Research - CESifo Group Munich)

Abstract

Studying the impact of economic growth on the environment in the context of developing countries has become of increasing economic importance in recent years. Alarming international reports show that pollutants emissions are growing at their highest level ever, particularly in the South countries. This paper implements recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between Sulfur dioxide emissions and real GDP for 12 MENA countries over the period 1981–2005. Our investigations lead to the result that no evidence is found for the EKC hypothesis for 10 country of the region. However, the EKC hypothesis is valid for the case of Egypt and Tunisia; the two most industrialised and diversified economies in our sample. At the same time, our findings show that EKC is not valid for the region when considered as a whole.

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  • Adel Ben Youssef & Mohamed El Hedi Arouri & Hatem M'Henni & Christophe Rault, 2012. "Empirical Analysis of the EKC Hypothesis for SO2 Emissions in Selected Middle East and North African Countries," Post-Print hal-01082259, HAL.
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    1. Alshehry, Atef Saad & Belloumi, Mounir, 2017. "Study of the environmental Kuznets curve for transport carbon dioxide emissions in Saudi Arabia," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1339-1347.
    2. Apergis, Nicholas & Christou, Christina & Gupta, Rangan, 2017. "Are there Environmental Kuznets Curves for US state-level CO2 emissions?," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 551-558.
    3. Gorus, Muhammed Sehid & Aslan, Murat, 2019. "Impacts of economic indicators on environmental degradation: Evidence from MENA countries," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 259-268.

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    Keywords

    Sulfur Dioxide emissions; Q28 Key words: Environmental Kuznets Curve; Q25; O11; JEL Classification: C23; Economic Growth; panel data; MENA countries;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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