Does foreign direct investment impede environmental quality in high-, middle-, and low-income countries?

By Muhammad Shahbaz, S. Nasreen, Faisal Abbas, O. Anis. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Can China’s Energy Intensity Constraint Policy Promote Total Factor Energy Efficiency? Evidence from the Industrial Sector (2019, background): “According to the “pollution haven” hypothesis, foreign enterprises tend to increase energy use and corresponding pollutant emissions to impair the improvement in green productivity (Shahbaz et al., 2015; Yuan and Zhang, 2017).”
An (a)symmetric analysis of the pollution haven hypothesis in the context of Pakistan: a non-linear approach (2019, methodology): “[12] investigated the FDI–CO2 nexus in countries of various income groups, such as low, high, and middle income, by employing fully modified ordinary least squares.”
Foreign direct Investment–CO2 emissions nexus in Middle East and North African countries: Importance of biomass energy consumption (2019, background): “In support of the PHH in MENA countries, researchers have also focused solely on FDI’s impact on environmental quality (Neequaye and Oladi, 2015; Shahbaz et al., 2015).”
The environmental consequences of domestic and foreign investment: Evidence from China (2017, background): “…years, there have been a growing body of literature investigating the impacts of FDI on the environment in the recent years (e.g., Lan et al., 2012; Wang and Chen, 2014; Hao and Liu, 2015 Shahbaz et al., 2015), although the studies on the environmental influences of FAI are still scarce so far.”
The Influencing Factors of CO2 Emissions and the Role of Biomass Energy Consumption: Statistical Experience from G-7 Countries (2018, background): “These variables are energy consumption [8, 13, 22, 34, 110, 126], capitalization [13, 58, 68, 104], FDI [42, 106, 128], trade openness [6, 76, 80, 110, 111, 127], financial development [6, 47, 52, 110, 128, 133], urbanization [6, 80, 111, 129], institutional quality [111], and globalization [130, 13”
Public-private partnerships investment in energy as new determinant of CO2 emissions: The role of technological innovations in China (2020, background): “Further, linkage between foreign direct investment and environmental quality also depends on relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth (Shahbaz et al. 2015).”