英文文献：Environmental Pollution, Economic Growth and Institutional Quality: Exploring the Nexus in Nigeria-环境污染、经济增长和制度质量:探讨尼日利亚的关系
英文文献作者：Samuel Egbetokun,Evans S. Osabuohien,Temidayo Akinbobola,Olaronke Onanuga,Obindah Gershon,Victoria Okafor
英文文献摘要：
The interaction between environmental pollution and economic growth determines the achievement of the green growth objective of developing economies. An economy turns around the inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) when pollution is effectively dampened by social, political and economic factors as such economy grows. Thus, this study examines the EKC considering the impact of institutional quality on six variables of environmental pollution [carbon dioxide (CO2), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Suspended Particulate Maters (SPM), Rainfall, Temperature and Total Green House Emission (TGH)] using the case of Nigeria. The EKC model includes population density, education expenditure, foreign direct investment, and gross domestic investment as control variables, and it was analysed using the Auto Regressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) econometric technique, which has not been applied in the literature on Nigeria. The results, inter alia, indicate that there is EKC for CO2 and SPM. This implies that the green growth objective can be pursued in Nigeria with concerted efforts. Other environmental pollution indicators did not exert significant influence on economic growth. Therefore, it is recommended that Nigeria’s institutional quality be strengthened to limit environmental pollution in light of economic growth.

环境污染与经济增长的相互作用决定了发展中经济体绿色增长目标的实现。随着经济增长，当污染被社会、政治和经济因素有效抑制时，一个经济体就会扭转环境库兹涅茨曲线(EKC)的倒u型曲线。因此，本研究以尼日利亚为例，考虑到制度质量对环境污染的六个变量(二氧化碳(CO2)、一氧化二氮(N2O)、悬浮颗粒物(SPM)、降雨、温度和温室气体排放总量(TGH))的影响，考察了EKC。EKC模型将人口密度、教育支出、外国直接投资和国内投资总额作为控制变量，使用在尼日利亚文献中未使用的自回归分布滞后(ARDL)计量技术对其进行分析。结果表明，CO2和SPM存在EKC。这意味着，尼日利亚可以通过共同努力实现绿色增长目标。其他环境污染指标对经济增长的影响不显著。因此，建议加强尼日利亚的制度质量，从经济增长的角度限制环境污染。