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Trade, foreign direct investment, and pollution abatement

Sharma, Shruti - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of tariff liberalization and foreign direct investment on pollution from a plant …-level perspective. It considers how globalization impacts plant-level investment in pollution abatement expenditure. Popular hypotheses … on trade and pollution cite the pollution haven effect - that trade leads to a worsening of environmental conditions in …

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Trade openness and the environmental Kuznets curve : evidence from cities in the People's Republic of China

Fang, Zheng; Huang, Bihong; Yang, Zhuoxiang - 2018

wastewater pollution increases with economic development until the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) reaches the turning …

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Urbanization, energy consumption, and pollutant emission in Asian developing economies : an empirical analysis

Salim, Ruhul A.; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa; Shafiei, Sahar - 2017

This paper aims to investigate the effects of urbanization, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, trade liberalization, and economic growth on pollutant emissions and energy intensity in selected Asian developing countries from 1980 to 2010. We use both linear and nonlinear panel data...

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Financial strategy to accelerate green growth

Noh, Hee Jin - 2018

Green growth simultaneously seeks economic development and environmental enhancement. In order to support green growth financially, the green finance sector needs to be developed. Funding and investment mechanisms of green finance are different from that of non-green finance, because green...

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Central banking, climate change and green finance

Dikau, Simon; Volz, Ulrich - 2018

Responsibility for financial and macroeconomic stability implicitly or explicitly lies with the central bank, which therefore ought to address climate-related and other environmental risks on a systemic level. Furthermore, central banks, through their regulatory oversight over money, credit, and...

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A comparative study on the role of public-private partnerships and green investment banks in boosting low-carbon investments

David, Dharish; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2018

Following the successful climate agreement in Paris, global attention shifted quickly to how countries will achieve their nationally determined contributions. To achieve the goals, governments need to make full use of the private sector capacity to unlock much larger flows of private investment...

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Green finance in Pakistan : barriers and solutions

Malik, Sadia; Qasim, Maha; Saeed, Hasan - 2018

Pakistan had been mired in a crippling energy crisis for several years but is experiencing a rapid turnaround in the energy sector with several new projects coming online. However, the interventions undertaken by the government rely heavily on imported fuel such as oil, coal, and LNG. An...

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Green finance in Viet Nam : barriers and solutions

Trong Co Nguyen; Anh Tu Chuc; Le Ngoc Dang - 2018

Viet Nam's energy sector has made considerable strides in recent years in achieving high percentage of nationwide electrification and a relatively diversified energy mix that is dominated by hydropower, followed by gas and coal. However, sustaining those achievements including addressing...

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Green finance in the Republic of Korea : barriers and solutions

Oh, Deokkyo; Kim, Sang-Hyup - 2018

The Republic of Korea fully launched its green finance scheme in 2009 and then introduced the environmental information disclosure system and the emission trading scheme in 2013 and 2015, respectively. However, their use has not increased dramatically, as the public sector has taken the major...

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Environmental challenges and sustainable economic development in the People's Republic of China : the role of renewable energy across provinces

Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy; Shi, Yukun; Zhao, Yang - 2019

In recent times, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has faced significant challenges in terms of managing its environment and moving forward with the concept of sustainable economic development. The environmental challenges concern the increasing consumption of fossil fuel energy, which has...

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