Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

By Avik Sinha, Monika Gupta, Muhammad Shahbaz, Tuhin Sengupta. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019

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This study investigates the impact of corruption in public sector on carbon emissions in presence of energy use segregation, following the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. The study has been carried out for Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) and Next 11 countries over the period of 1990-2017. Along with the finding of inverted N-shaped EKC for both the cases, we find that incidents of corruption enhance environmental degradation by reducing the positive impact of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality, and increasing the negative impact of fossil fuel consumption. This study has also divulged that the corruptive practices are more prone in case of the countries, where the development is mature and institutionalization is more stringent. Based on these findings, we suggest that environmental policies should take account of the corruption, and thereby, making the policies more robust and effective.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Avik Sinha
2. Muhammad Shahbaz
3. Tuhin Sengupta
4. Muhammad Wasif Zafar
5. D. Balsalobre-lorente
6. Zhilun Jiao
7. M. Destek
8. Rajesh K Sharma

In Information Systems

1. M. Destek
2. Avik Sinha
3. Muhammad Shahbaz
4. N. Othman
5. H. A. Bekhet

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Avik Sinha
2. Muhammad Shahbaz
3. Rajesh K Sharma
4. Tuhin Sengupta
5. Simplice A. Asongu

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the impacts of ageing and natural resource extraction on carbon emissions: A proposed policy framework for European economies (2021, background): “A detailed review of the studies analyzing this association has been carried out by Shahbaz and Sinha (2019).”
• Analyzing nonlinear impact of economic growth drivers on CO2 emissions: Designing an SDG framework for India (2020, background): “, 2018), and international trade (Sinha et al., 2019) are some of the well-recognized drivers of environmental pollution.”
• How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries (2020, background): “Shahbaz and Sinha (2019) have provided a detailed review on this association.”
• Renewable, non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth, trade openness and ecological footprint: Evidence from organisation for economic Co-operation and development countries (2020, background): “20 According to the description of this hypothesis, environmental degradation rises with the 21 progression of economy, and after the economic activity reaches an extent, the environmental 22 degradation starts coming down with further progression of economy (Shahbaz and Sinha, 2019).”