The Relationship Between Economic Growth And Environmental Pollution in D8 Countries: Panel Var Analysis

Abstract

In this study D8 (Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Bangladesh) countries per capita in the real gross domestic product was examined by relations panel VAR analysis between carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. The data obtained from the World Bank Economic Indicators Database for the period 1990-2014 were analyzed with the annual data. As a result of this study, one-way Granger causality relationship was determined from real gross domestic product to energy use and carbon dioxide emission.