FDI and CO2 emissions in developing countries: the role of human capital

FDI inflows remain an important source of economic growth and technology transfer for developing countries. However, the proponents of the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) argue that FDI inflows may result in the production of polluted goods in poor economies. The empirical testing of PHH reveals co...

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Vydáno v:	Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Ročník 117; číslo 1; s. 1125 - 1155
Hlavní autoři:	Khan, Muhammad, Rana, Arslan Tariq, Ghardallou, Wafa
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2023 Springer Nature B.V
Témata:	Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide emissions Civil Engineering Developing countries Earth and Environmental Science Earth Sciences Economic development Economic growth Education Emissions Environmental Kuznets curve Environmental Management Environmental quality Error correction Geophysics/Geodesy Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Human capital Hydrogeology LDCs Natural Hazards Original Paper Pollution Social sciences Technology transfer O13 Human capital Economic growth Developing countries F25 FDI CO emissions I25
ISSN:	0921-030X, 1573-0840
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Shrnutí:	FDI inflows remain an important source of economic growth and technology transfer for developing countries. However, the proponents of the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) argue that FDI inflows may result in the production of polluted goods in poor economies. The empirical testing of PHH reveals conflicting outcomes on the subject. This study argues that foreign firms’ choice of specific technologies and hence the validity of PHH can be determined by host countries’ level of education. For developing economies having low levels of schooling, FDI inflows will accompany polluted technologies. Nonetheless, when education levels exceed certain thresholds, FDI inflows may reduce CO 2 emissions. For our empirical investigation, we rely upon a large panel of 108 developing countries during 2000–2016. Our estimated outcomes, based on the panel cointegration method and panel vector error correction methods (P-VECM), confirm these moderating effects of human capital in the FDI–CO 2 emissions nexus. The empirical results also confirm the presence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for developing countries. These results have important policy implications for the sample economies.
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ISSN:	0921-030X 1573-0840
DOI:	10.1007/s11069-023-05949-4