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Adebola Solarin, Sakiru and Al-Mulali, Usama and Ozturk, Ilhan (2017) Validating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in India and China: The role of hydroelectricity consumption. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 80. pp. 1578-1587. ISSN 1364-0321

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the link between CO2 emissions, hydroelectricity consumption, urbanisation and real GDP in China and India during the period of 1965–2013. The long-run cointegration is investigated by the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach, which is augmented with structural breaks. We employ the ARDL cointegration test to establish long run relationship in the variables. Furthermore, we use the ARDL to show that real GDP and urbanisation have long-run positive impact on emission, while hydroelectricity consumption exerts long-run negative impact on emission in both countries. The results support the existence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in China and India. Besides, the paper assesses the causal link between the variables by using Granger causality procedures and the results show that there is long-run bidirectional relationship between the variables in both countries.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CO2 emissions, Hydroelectricity consumption, Real GDP, Urbanisation
Subjects:	T Technology > TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Business (FOB)
Depositing User:	Ms Suzilawati Abu Samah
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2020 05:22
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2020 05:24
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/6988

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