The relationship between transport, economic growth and environmental degradation for ninety countries

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Listiono Listiono

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This paper investigates the relationship between freight transport, economic growth and environmental degradation (CO2 emissions) experienced by ninety countries over the period 1980-2014. The estimation is divided into the global panel, high-income countries, upper-middle income countries, lower-middle income countries, and lower-income countries. This paper employed simultaneous equation Model and was estimated by Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS). The results discovered the existence of bi-directional causality relationship between economic growth and freight transport in the high-income countries and lower-income countries. The result also indicated the bi-directional causality relationship between the transportation and CO2 emissions in the panel upper-middle-income countries. Lastly, the finding indicated the bi-directional causality between economic growth and CO2 emissions in lower-middle income countries.

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Listiono, L. (2018). The relationship between transport, economic growth and environmental degradation for ninety countries. Sustinere: Journal of Environment and Sustainability, 2(1), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.22515/sustinere.jes.v2i1.28
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