Title: Population dynamics, environmental issues and public sector policies in South Asian economies: a panel co-integration analysis

Authors: Ramanpreet Kaur; Tushinder Preet Kaur

Addresses: Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India ' Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India

Abstract: Environment degradation is the most challenging problem in today's world. In developing countries, it is frequently being dealt with by researchers. This paper has studied the panel co-integration and causality between urban population, energy usage and particulate matter (PM_2.5) emission in selected countries (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) of South Asia from 1990-2017. After checking the stationarity of the variables, Pedroni, Kao and Johanson Fisher co-integration tests have been used to check the co-integration among the variables. Granger causality test has concluded that there exists bi-directional causality among the variables in the long-run. The results prove that energy usage and urbanisation are responsible for continuous emission of particulate matter (PM_2.5) in these countries. The results of this study will be useful for the government to make policies related to urbanisation and energy usage to maintain environment sustainability in the economies.

Keywords: global warming; particulate matter (PM_2.5) emission; urbanisation; climate; energy usage; panel co-integration; panel Granger causality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2024.137198

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2024 Vol.13 No.2, pp.217 - 231

Received: 26 Mar 2020
Accepted: 27 Jan 2021
Published online: 05 Mar 2024 *

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