Foreign direct investment and the pollution in five ASEAN nations

We investigated the impact of FDI on pollution for Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines- significant FDI recipients within the developing world in the last three decades- and the findings invite further questions. Our time-series analyses, employing the Autoregressive Distri...

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Main Authors: Merican, Yasmine, Yusop, Zulkornain, Mohd Noor, Zaleha, Law, Siong Hook
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2007
Acceso en liña:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/717/1/bab04.pdf
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Summary:We investigated the impact of FDI on pollution for Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines- significant FDI recipients within the developing world in the last three decades- and the findings invite further questions. Our time-series analyses, employing the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) technique suggest that FDI adds to pollution in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines but not in Indonesia where FDI is inversely related to pollution, and Singapore where it proved insignificant.