Environmental pollution and economic growth in Algeria

Abstract

 The aim of this paper is to try to investigate the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth in Algeria, both in the short and long term, by conducting a standard study in Algeria during the period 1980-2018, The ARDL self-regression methodology was used to verify this study Using variable carbon emissions as a dependent variable and explanatory variables represented in real GDP per capita, energy consumption, trade openness and urbanization.

The study, based on the study variables, found that growth positively affects carbon emissions in Algeria in the small and long term. This is different from the assumptions of the Kuznets environmental curve