The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Empirical Evidence from the Republic of Kazakhstan

The main objective of this paper is to examine the effect growth has on CO2 emissions in Kazakhstan, controlling for energy consumption, in the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration framework. We find that the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis seems to hold for Kazakhstan; t...

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Main Authors: Amantay Akbota, Jungho Baek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Economies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/6/1/19