The study investigates the relationship between industrial production and environmental quality in a Chinese economy. The estimates of the ARDL bounds test over the sample 1972-2020 provide evidence of the long-run relation between industrial production and environmental quality in the presence...

Natural resource rent (NRR) can be a blessing for the economic growth of resource-rich economies but may cause environmental problems. The present research explores the effects of NRR, economic growth, trade openness (TO), and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the carbon intensities of...

During the last few decades, governments of developing countries have increasingly viewed foreign direct investment (FDIs) as a catalyst for economic growth. This study investigates the impact of FDI on economic growth of Pakistan by using Endogenous Growth Model. Out of a number of variables...

The study attempts to find the impact of foreign direct investment on tax revenue in Pakistan. Foreign direct investment and gross domestic product per person employed are used as independent variables and tax revenue is taken as dependent variable. Augmented Dickey Fuller, Phillips-Perron,...

Women may be considered to have hidden, unutilized potential for the economy and society, if not utilized at their full capacity, i.e., with effective educational, social and political policies. Allowing women to participate fully in an economy may contribute to the sustainable development of...

Keeping a sustainable environment is always a massive challenge for oil-exporting countries, and in that situation, industrialization and rapid growth of urbanization can add fuel to the fire. We investigate the effects of industrialization and urbanization on the CO2 emissions per capita in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of prior year firm’s performance on subsequent year firm’s corporate governance mechanism. We used board size, CEO–Chairman combined structure and audit expenditure as a firm level corporate governance mechanism. The panel data of...