IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ady/wpaper/edwrg-06-2022.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The impact of poverty on the ecological footprint in BRICS countries

Author

Listed:
  • Frederich Kirsten

    (College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg)

  • Mduduzi Biyase

    (College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg)

  • Talent Zwane

    (College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg)

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between poverty and ecological footprint for BRICS nations. The data for BRICS is obtained from the World Bank's world development indicators, Global Footprint Network, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) and PovcalNet for the period 1996 to 2017. Panel autoregressive distributed lag (PARDL) and their corresponding preliminary cross-sectional dependence and second generations specification tests were used for the analysis of the data. The estimates from the full sample support the literature, revealing a robust long-run relationship between poverty and ecological footprint. Specifically, results demonstrate that poverty gap help to reduce environmental degradation in terms of EFP in the full sample. However, the effect of poverty on ecological footprint becomes positive when we split the sample-exclude China from the full sample. Our results are robust to various measures of ecological footprint, poverty and to alternative empirical specifications. The implication of the current upward trend of environmental degradation for some BRICS countries and the high poverty in others suggest that policy makers have a long way to go and given growth trajectory of the BRICS nations, the future of the planet could very well be in the hands of these developing nations.

Suggested Citation

  • Frederich Kirsten & Mduduzi Biyase & Talent Zwane, 2022. "The impact of poverty on the ecological footprint in BRICS countries," Economics Working Papers edwrg-06-2022, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, revised 2022.
    • Handle: RePEc:ady:wpaper:edwrg-06-2022
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://edwrg.education/RePEc/ady/wpaper/w6_2022.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2022
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Rabiul Islam & Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani, 2018. "Link among energy consumption, carbon dioxide emission, economic growth, population, poverty, and forest area," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 45(2), pages 275-285, February.
    2. Gu, Jing & Renwick, Neil & Xue, Lan, 2018. "The BRICS and Africa's search for green growth, clean energy and sustainable development," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 675-683.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Xiaoxue Liu & Fuzhen Cao & Shuangshuang Fan, 2022. "Does Human Capital Matter for China’s Green Growth?—Examination Based on Econometric Model and Machine Learning Methods," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-27, September.
    2. Fatima Sharif & Ihsanullah Hussain & Maria Qubtia, 2023. "Energy Consumption, Carbon Emission and Economic Growth at Aggregate and Disaggregate Level: A Panel Analysis of the Top Polluted Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-18, February.
    3. Luís M. Fazendeiro & Sofia G. Simões, 2021. "Historical Variation of IEA Energy and CO 2 Emission Projections: Implications for Future Energy Modeling," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-27, July.
    4. Zhengxin Li & Md. Qamruzzaman, 2023. "Nexus between Environmental Degradation, Clean Energy, Financial Inclusion, and Poverty: Evidence with DSUR, CUP-FM, and CUP-BC Estimation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(19), pages 1-31, September.
    5. Vicente Sebastian Espinoza & Javier Fontalvo & Paola Ramírez & Jaime Martí-Herrero & Margarita Mediavilla, 2022. "Energy Transition Scenarios for Fossil Fuel Rich Developing Countries under Constraints on Oil Availability: The Case of Ecuador," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(19), pages 1-25, September.
    6. Smirnova, Elena & Kot, Sebastian & Kolpak, Eugeny & Shestak, Viktor, 2021. "Governmental support and renewable energy production: A cross-country review," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 230(C).
    7. Juan Li & Keyin Liu & Zixin Yang & Yi Qu, 2023. "Evolution and Impacting Factors of Global Renewable Energy Products Trade Network: An Empirical Investigation Based on ERGM Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-27, May.
    8. Liu, Yang & Dong, Xiucheng & Dong, Kangyin, 2023. "Pathway to prosperity? The impact of low-carbon energy transition on China's common prosperity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    9. Jin, Yi & Gao, Xiaoyan & Wang, Min, 2021. "The financing efficiency of listed energy conservation and environmental protection firms: Evidence and implications for green finance in China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 153(C).
    10. Anser, Muhammad Khalid & Yousaf, Zahid & Zaman, Khalid & Nassani, Abdelmohsen A. & Alotaibi, Saad M. & Jambari, Hanifah & Khan, Aqeel & Kabbani, Ahmad, 2020. "Determination of resource curse hypothesis in mediation of financial development and clean energy sources: Go-for-green resource policies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    11. Zhaopeng Chu & Changxin Liu & Gang Li & Kaixuan Guan, 2018. "Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-17, October.
    12. Jiang, Jingjing & Ye, Bin & Liu, Junguo, 2019. "Research on the peak of CO2 emissions in the developing world: Current progress and future prospect," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C), pages 186-203.
    13. Hamad Dilawar & Muhammad Zahir Faridi, 2022. "Population and Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan: An Aggregated and Disaggregated Analysis," Journal of Policy Research (JPR), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 8(3), pages 151-165, September.
    14. Baloch, Muhammad Awais & Danish, & Khan, Salah Ud-Din & Ulucak, Zübeyde Şentürk, 2020. "Poverty and vulnerability of environmental degradation in Sub-Saharan African countries: what causes what?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 143-149.
    15. Vivek Arulnathan & Mohammad Davoud Heidari & Maurice Doyon & Eric P. H. Li & Nathan Pelletier, 2022. "Economic Indicators for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Going beyond Life Cycle Costing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-27, December.
    16. K. M., Mahesh & Aithal, Sreeramana & Sharma, KRS, 2022. "Impact of Sustainable Finance on MSMEs and other Companies to Promote Green Growth and Sustainable development," MPRA Paper 112058, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Haini, Hazwan, 2021. "Examining the impact of ICT, human capital and carbon emissions: Evidence from the ASEAN economies," International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 116-125.
    18. Yang, Qin & Du, Qiang & Razzaq, Asif & Shang, Yunfeng, 2022. "How volatility in green financing, clean energy, and green economic practices derive sustainable performance through ESG indicators? A sectoral study of G7 countries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    19. Yao, Wanxiang & Zheng, Zhimiao & Zhao, Jun & Wang, Xiao & Wang, Yan & Li, Xianli & Fu, Jidong, 2020. "The factor analysis of fog and haze under the coupling of multiple factors -- taking four Chinese cities as an example," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    20. Huang, Lihua & Zhao, Wei, 2022. "The impact of green trade and green growth on natural resources," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    BRICS; poverty; ecological footprint; PARDL;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ady:wpaper:edwrg-06-2022. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Frederich Kirsten (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.uj.ac.za/edwrg .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.