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Green growth as a determinant of ecological footprint: Do ICT diffusion, environmental innovation, and natural resources matter?

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  • Ali Hassan
  • Juan Yang
  • Ahmed Usman
  • Ahmer Bilal
  • Sana Ullah

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The nexus between green growth and ecological footprint is associated with crucial environmental implications. But this domain is not examined sufficiently and provides ambiguous findings. Furthermore, these studies have not addressed the role of natural resources, environmental innovation, and ICT in influencing ecological footprint. Our study analyzes the impact of green growth, ICT, environmental innovation, and natural resources on the ecological footprint ofemerging-7 and developed-7 economies. We employed CS-ARDL methodology to draw the long-run and short-run estimates of the said relationships. The obtained findings show that green growth, ICT, and environmental innovation reduce the ecological footprint in emerging economies in the long run. However, natural resources enhance the ecological footprint in emerging economies in the long run. Green growth, ICT, natural resources, and environmental innovation reduce the ecological footprint in the long run in developed economies. Based on these outcomes, the study recommends important policy suggestions.

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  • Ali Hassan & Juan Yang & Ahmed Usman & Ahmer Bilal & Sana Ullah, 2023. "Green growth as a determinant of ecological footprint: Do ICT diffusion, environmental innovation, and natural resources matter?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(9), pages 1-22, September.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287715
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