This paper examines the relationship between female entrepreneurship and environmental implications in ASEAN economies. While economic growth affluence benefit society, they come at cost of degradation, particularly rising carbon dioxide levels ecosystem concerns. Women entrepreneurs Southeast Asia can potentially support their families contribute to societal development by starting own busines...

The effect of economic growth on environmental quality is much under dispute. A number of empirical studies have made the claim that there exist in some income ranges a positive relation between per capita income and some measure of environmental quality. According to this inverted U-shaped pattern of different pollutants relative to per capita incomes in different countries which is also calle...

this paper investigates the impacts of economic and financial developments on environmental pollution for 6 opec countries using panel cointegration and panel long-run estimator (dols) over the period 1980–2008.  the results shows that both economic and financial development have significant effect on the environmental quality in selected opec economies. the findings not support the existence o...

sustainability in 19 different arab countries has been studied through investigating the relationship between economic development and energy consumption. data collected has been studied as a whole (total countries data) and as segregated data (oil exporting and oil importing countries data) i.e. three categories. the regression model used measures the effect of independent and control variable...

This paper provides an overview of recent econometric advances on testing of functional form with semiparametric methods and their application to the estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The EKC in environmental economics is estimated using panel data models and provides a fertile ground for the adoption of recent panel data developments. The paper provides a discussion of recen...