Environmental Quality and Economic Performance in Developing Countries

57th International Riga Technical University Scientific Conference on Economics and Enterpreneurship (SCEE'2016): Proceedings 2016
Lina Sineviciene, Oleksandr Kubatko

This research founds that there is positive and statistically significant relationship between economic performance and environmental quality. The energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita) is statistically significant and negatively correlated with environmental performance. An increase in GDP per capita on 100 USD improves EPI in absolute scale on 0,1. There is no inverted U-shape relationships in economic performance and EPI for developing counties

Keywords
environmental quality, developing countries, economic activates

Sineviciene, L., Kubatko, O. Environmental Quality and Economic Performance in Developing Countries. In: 57th International Riga Technical University Scientific Conference on Economics and Enterpreneurship (SCEE'2016): Proceedings, Latvia, Rīga, 14-16 October, 2016. Riga: Riga Technical University, 2016, pp.242-243. ISBN 978-9934-10-860-0. ISSN 2256-0866.

Publication language
English (en)