Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research

Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research

The effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment evidence developed and developing countries

Document Type : Research Paper

Author
Seyed Nematollah Mousavi
Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Marv Dasht
10.22059/ijaedr.2015.55813
Abstract
In this study ,the relationship between environmental quality and trade liberalization in developed and developing countries during the years 1990-2013 were examined.in this context the two indicators of carbon dioxide emissions (air pollution) and organic materials (water pollutions) was used to demonstrate the quality of the environment. The results of modeling the combined data for the two groups of developing and developed countries, showed that the long term relationship between variable quality of the environment and trade liberalization. Also, there is an environmental Kuznets curve for both types of pollution to air pollution in developed countries and developing countries was approved. On the other hand, the results showed the absence of water pollution in developing countries is the graph above.
Keywords
Air pollution
Environmental Kuznets Curve
Trade Liberalization
water pollution
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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 46, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2015
Pages 623-632