Croissance économique et dégradation de l’environnement en Côte d’Ivoire : application du modèle stirpat

Senzele, Joseph (2022): Croissance économique et dégradation de l’environnement en Côte d’Ivoire : application du modèle stirpat.

Abstract

The study aims at analyzing the relationship between economic growth Environmental degradation in Côte d'Ivoire over the period 1990-2020. To do so, we applied the STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology) model of Ehrlich-oldren (1971 ; 1972), improved by Dietz and Rosa (1997) and York et al. (2003), which allows to catch the effects of macroeconomic variables on the environment. The results of the test indicate a long-run relationship between the variables, and the results of the long-run model confirm the Kuznets environmental curve hypothesis for the Ivorian economy with a GDP per capita turning point of 2008 US Dollars. We also find that energy consumption, urbanization and industry have significant positive effects on CO2 emissions. The Toda-Yamamoto approach shows that there is a unidirectional causality from economic growth to carbon dioxide emissions in Côte d'Ivoire.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Economic growth and environmental degradation in Cote d'ivoire : stirpat model implementation
• Language: French
• Keywords: Economic Growth, CO2 emissions, STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology), AutoRegressive Distributed Lags, TodaYamamoto approach, Côte d’Ivoire
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics

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