The relationship between trade opennes and enviromental quality in South Africa

Dingiswayo, Unathi

Title: The relationship between trade opennes and enviromental quality in South Africa
Creator: Dingiswayo, Unathi
Subject: Commerce and administraton
Date Issued: 2022-00
Date: 2022-00
Type: Masters theses
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10012
Identifier: vital:74932
Description: The study empirically examined the relationship between trade openness and environmental quality in South Africa for the period 1994 to 2018. To achieve the objective, the study employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds technique and Granger causality test. The results revealed that trade openness, have a positive and significant relationship with carbon emission, both in the short-run and long-run. The granger causality test results also showed a unidirectional causality running from trade openness to environmental quality. The implication of the findings is that the South African government must implement trade agreements that can strengthen the capacity for governments to address environmental issues. In particular, the reduction of trade barriers on environmental goods can lead to increased access to green technologies at lower cost. The government must enact and enforce strict environmental laws to avoid the “pollution haven hypothesis” which normally affect the low-income countries.
Description: Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Economics and Financial Sciences, 2022
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (101 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Walter Sisulu University
Publisher: Faculty of Economics and Financial Sciences
Language: English
Rights: Faculty of Economics and financial Sciences
Rights: Open Access

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