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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 298, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113465
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Institutional quality; Sustainable development; Augmented endogenous sustainable growth; framework; Developing countries
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Efficient environmental resource management is crucial for sustainable development in developing countries. This study analyzes the impact of institutional quality on sustainable development using an augmented endogenous sustainable growth model. The results show that institutional quality plays a positive role in sustainable development, especially in lower middle-income countries.
Efficient environmental resource management is a serious concern for sustainable development in developing countries. This study determines the impact of institutional quality on sustainable development, based on total factor productivity improvements through the environmental regulatory process by way of abatement policies using an augmented endogenous sustainable growth model. Based on panel data covering 66 developing countries from 1984 to 2019, the employed methods involve the fixed effects and the system generalized method of moments (GMM). The main results indicate that institutional quality has a positive impact on sustainable development. Institutional quality has a more positive role in sustainable development in lower middle-income countries than low-income countries. The overall results indicate that the disaggregated performance of institutional quality variables is higher in lower middle-income countries than low-income countries. Two main policy implications are implied by our analyses: legislative backing in the form of institutional enforcement is mandatory to design efficient and productive policy relevant to environmental resource management; and various institutional forms should be considered when designing environmental resource protection policy from an environmental governance point of view.
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