Iftikhar Yasin
University of Lahore, Lahore Pakistan, Economics, Faculty Member
- Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Environmental policy, Ecological Economics, Political Institutions, and 6 moreEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Energy and Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Urbanization and Environmental Issues, Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Green Economy, and Environmental Policy and Managementedit
- Iftikhar Yasin is an experienced and credible economist, known for his work in Environmental Economics, Resource Econ... moreIftikhar Yasin is an experienced and credible economist, known for his work in Environmental Economics, Resource Economics, and Energy Economics. His most recent publication is 'Catechizing the Environmental-Impression of Urbanization, Financial Development, and Political Institutions: A Circumstance of Ecological Footprints in 110 Developed and Less-Developed Countries', published in Social Indicators Research, a high-quality journal ranked as ABDC-A.edit
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This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive... more
This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model methodology to cointegration to capture the potential asymmetries. We also incorporated asymmetric and non-asymmetric granger causality approach to analyze the causality amongst series. The empirical results indicate that energy use, economic upswing, and foreign trade are not environment friendly. The NARDL results suggest that energy efficient technologies and renewable energy should be adopted to alleviate the CO2 emissions.
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This research paper aims at investigating the social factors affecting poverty in selected developing countries which was hardly been investigated, yet. We incorporated income poverty index (poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap) and... more
This research paper aims at investigating the social factors affecting poverty in selected developing countries which was hardly been investigated, yet. We incorporated income poverty index (poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap) and human poverty index as dependent variables, while social factors have been used as explanatory variables, through 1997-2016, for a group of twenty three developing nations. Whereas poverty indices have been constructed through PCA (Principal Component Analysis). Pesaran and Friedman CD (Cross-Dependence) tests have been applied to confirm the occurrence of cross-dependency in the panel data, while CIPS (second generation panel unit root) test has been applied to verify stationary of the variables. Besides, different first generation panel unit root tests have also been applied to confirm stationary of the variables. We applied Pedroni panel co-integration to check for the existence of long-run linkages among the variables, while System and difference GMM (one step) techniques have been used to find dynamic effects on poverty. The results conclude that age dependency ratio showed positive and significant relationship with poverty, whereas, social globalization depicted negative and significant relationship with poverty. Nevertheless, health (life expectancy at birth) and education (primary school enrolment) have negative relationship with poverty in both income and human poverty models, while, in income poverty model, these variables have insignificant impacts and in human poverty model, they have significant associations. Similarly, population growth has positive associations with poverty in the income and human poverty models.
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The study probes the relationship between health expenditures, forestation, and environmental quality using panel data of 87 countries, through 1999–2018. The empirical analysis is based on 16 high-income, 22 upper-middle-income, 18... more
The study probes the relationship between health expenditures, forestation, and environmental quality using panel data of 87 countries, through 1999–2018. The empirical analysis is based on 16 high-income, 22 upper-middle-income, 18 low-middle-income, 13 low-income, and 18 partner countries of one belt one road (OBOR) project. The Chinese government initiated one belt one road (OBOR) project to enhance the level of cooperation among partner countries in different sectors of an economy. The study incorporates a difference and system generalized method of moments (GMM) to control the problem of endogeneity. Empirical findings reveal the positive and significant relationship between CO2 emission and per capita health expenditure among the selected samples of all countries. However, forest area exhibits negative and significant association with per capita health expenditure in low-income and partner of one belt one road (OBOR) countries. The study incorporates different regression specification categories and amalgamation with different control variables such as per capita income, trade, and industrial value-added to ensure the robustness of estimates.
Research Interests: Environmental Engineering, Human Geography, Environmental Science, Economics, Environmental Economics, and 10 moreSocial Sciences, Health Economics, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Development, Energy and Environment, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Endogeneity, Per Capita Income, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, and Environmenatal Modeling
This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by... more
This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by income levels, over the time span of 1996–2016. The final outcome of cross-sectionally weighted Panel EGLS and multi-step A-B GMM evidently reinforced the existence of EKC hypothesis in case of EF both in developed and less-developed countries. This study finds the destructive environmental impact of composition effect and energy consumption while political institutions, trade openness, and urbanization have constructive environmental effect. Financial development reduces the human demand on nature only in less-developed countries. The ultimate consequences of this study are equipped with several policy recommendations for the concerned authorities.
Research Interests: Human Geography, Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental policy, International Trade, and 15 moreEcological Economics, Politics, Political Institutions, Environmental Policy and Governance, Energy and Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Less developed countries, EKC, GMM Analysis, Developed Countries, Openness to experience, environmental Kuznets curve, Environmental Policy and Management, Constructive, and Financial Development and Environmental Quality
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Social and organizational innovations are one of the most effective ways to gain social collaboration for effective, rapid, and coordinated interventions. An analysis of the relationship among organizational performance (OP), social... more
Social and organizational innovations are one of the most effective ways to gain social collaboration for effective, rapid, and coordinated interventions. An analysis of the relationship among organizational performance (OP), social innovations (SI) and organizational innovation (OI) in social organizations (SOs) is little discussed in the literature and much less with main component analysis. This paper is an effort to provide some empirical evidences about social and organizational innovations that social organizations in China have implemented to address the social issues of the society. A survey of Chinese SO’s is conducted during beginning two months of 2022 in provinces of Jiangsu, Guangdong and Zhejiang to attain the statistics and assessing the insights of the executives of the SOs participating in this study with respect to organizational performance, social and organizational innovations. The technique used to select the sample is a non-probabilistic sampling and multiple ...
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The ability of self-reconstruction is essential to the survival of social organizations. To meet the social challenges, these organizations must enhance their creative and innovative processes. Although an extensive literature describes... more
The ability of self-reconstruction is essential to the survival of social organizations. To meet the social challenges, these organizations must enhance their creative and innovative processes. Although an extensive literature describes the impact of social capital on innovations, research on how social and organizational innovations affect organizational performance and social capital is very slim. This paper makes an addition to the literature by investigating the impact of organizational and social innovations in explaining the relationship of social capital and organizational performance. Confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and structural equation modelling are used on the data gained from social organizations in China. It is found that social and organizational innovations affect the organizational performance in positive way while social capital has a vital role in this relationship by improving mutual cooperation, interaction and trust. The mediating ro...
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This study endeavors to explore the bearing of financial development, political institutions, urbanization, and trade openness on CO2 emanations in a group of 59 less-developed countries, over the period of 1996–2016. In order to estimate... more
This study endeavors to explore the bearing of financial development, political institutions, urbanization, and trade openness on CO2 emanations in a group of 59 less-developed countries, over the period of 1996–2016. In order to estimate environmental impacts of aforementioned series, we used cross-sectionally weighted Estimated Generalized Least Square (EGLS) methodology, Arellano-Bond Generalized Method of Moment (A-B GMM), and Orthogonal-Deviation GMM (O-D GMM). The study finds that financial development, urbanization, composition effect (measured by capital/labor ratio) and energy consumption deteriorate environmental quality. Our results confirmed the prevalence of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) proposition which undertakes upturned-U shape bond amid economic growth and pollution emanations. Furthermore, institutions and foreign trade are found to have beneficial environmental impact. This study suggests resilient institutional reforms and comprehensively integrated environmental quality concerns in financial reforms to help to mitigate pollution emanations and achieve sustained economic growth in less-developed economies.
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The study probes the relationship between health expenditures, forestation, and environmental quality using panel data of 87 countries, through 1999–2018. The empirical analysis is based on 16 high-income, 22 upper-middle-income, 18... more
The study probes the relationship between health expenditures, forestation, and environmental quality using panel data of 87 countries, through 1999–2018. The empirical analysis is based on 16 high-income, 22 upper-middle-income, 18 low-middle-income, 13 low-income, and 18 partner countries of one belt one road (OBOR) project. The Chinese government initiated one belt one road (OBOR) project to enhance the level of cooperation among partner countries in different sectors of an economy. The study incorporates a difference and system generalized method of moments (GMM) to control the problem of endogeneity. Empirical findings reveal the positive and significant relationship between CO2 emission and per capita health expenditure among the selected samples of all countries. However, forest area exhibits negative and significant association with per capita health expenditure in low-income and partner of one belt one road (OBOR) countries. The study incorporates different regression specification categories and amalgamation with different control variables such as per capita income, trade, and industrial value-added to ensure the robustness of estimates.
Research Interests: Environmental Engineering, Human Geography, Environmental Science, Economics, Environmental Economics, and 8 moreSocial Sciences, Health Economics, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Development, Energy and Environment, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, and Environmenatal Modeling
This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive... more
This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model methodology to cointegration to capture the potential asymmetries. We also incorporated asymmetric and non-asymmetric granger causality approach to analyze the causality amongst series. The empirical results indicate that energy use, economic upswing, and foreign trade are not environment friendly. The NARDL results suggest that energy efficient technologies and renewable energy should be adopted to alleviate the CO2 emissions.
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This research paper aims at investigating the social factors affecting poverty in selected developing countries which was hardly been investigated, yet. We incorporated income poverty index (poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap) and... more
This research paper aims at investigating the social factors affecting poverty in selected developing countries which was hardly been investigated, yet. We incorporated income poverty index (poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap) and human poverty index as dependent variables, while social factors have been used as explanatory variables, through 1997-2016, for a group of twenty three developing nations. Whereas poverty indices have been constructed through PCA (Principal Component Analysis). Pesaran and Friedman CD (Cross-Dependence) tests have been applied to confirm the occurrence of cross-dependency in the panel data, while CIPS (second generation panel unit root) test has been applied to verify stationary of the variables. Besides, different first generation panel unit root tests have also been applied to confirm stationary of the variables. We applied Pedroni panel co-integration to check for the existence of long-run linkages among the variables, while System and difference ...
This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by... more
This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by income levels, over the time span of 1996–2016. The final outcome of cross-sectionally weighted Panel EGLS and multi-step A-B GMM evidently reinforced the existence of EKC hypothesis in case of EF both in developed and less-developed countries. This study finds the destructive environmental impact of composition effect and energy consumption while political institutions, trade openness, and urbanization have constructive environmental effect. Financial development reduces the human demand on nature only in less-developed countries. The ultimate consequences of this study are equipped with several policy recommendations for the concerned authorities.
Research Interests: Sociology, Energy Economics, Environmental policy, Social Indicators, International Trade, and 13 moreEcological Economics, Political Institutions, Environmental Policy and Governance, Energy and Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Less developed countries, EKC, Urbanization and Environmental Issues, GMM Analysis, Developed Countries, environmental Kuznets curve, Environmental Policy and Management, and Financial Development and Environmental Quality
This study endeavors to explore the bearing of financial development, political institutions, urbanization, and trade openness on CO2 emanations in a group of 59 less-developed countries, over the period of 1996–2016. In order to estimate... more
This study endeavors to explore the bearing of financial development, political institutions, urbanization, and trade openness on CO2 emanations in a group of 59 less-developed countries, over the period of 1996–2016. In order to estimate environmental impacts of aforementioned series, we used cross-sectionally weighted Estimated Generalized Least Square (EGLS) methodology, Arellano-Bond Generalized Method of Moment (A-B GMM), and Orthogonal-Deviation GMM (O-D GMM). The study finds that financial development, urbanization, composition effect (measured by capital/labor ratio) and energy consumption deteriorate environmental quality. Our results confirmed the prevalence of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) proposition which undertakes upturned-U shape bond amid economic growth and pollution emanations. Furthermore, institutions and foreign trade are found to have beneficial environmental impact. This study suggests resilient institutional reforms and comprehensively integrated environmental quality concerns in financial reforms to help to mitigate pollution emanations and achieve sustained economic growth in less-developed economies.
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This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by... more
This study stabs to probe the impact of financial development, urbanization, trade openness, political institutions, and energy consumption on the ecological footprints (EF), within the framework of EKC, of 110 countries congregated by income levels, over the time span of 1996–2016. The final outcome of cross-sectionally weighted Panel EGLS and multi-step A-B GMM evidently reinforced the existence of EKC hypothesis in case of EF both in developed and less-developed countries. This study finds the destructive environmental impact of composition effect and energy consumption while political institutions, trade openness, and urbanization have constructive environmental effect. Financial development reduces the human demand on nature only in less-developed countries. The ultimate consequences of this study are equipped with several policy recommendations for the concerned authorities.
Research Interests: Energy Economics, Environmental policy, International Trade, Ecological Economics, Political Institutions, and 12 moreEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Energy and Environment, Environmental Sustainability, Less developed countries, EKC, Urbanization and Environmental Issues, Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Green Economy, GMM Analysis, Developed Countries, environmental Kuznets curve, Environmental Policy and Management, and Financial Development and Environmental Quality
The new Development Economics is not only considerate about improving the material conditions of any society, but also enhancing the terms on which citizens can actively participate in a society's development; in broader terms this is... more
The new Development Economics is not only considerate about improving the material conditions of any society, but also enhancing the terms on which citizens can actively participate in a society's development; in broader terms this is called social inclusion. High literacy rates, alone cannot breed a socially inclusive society. Accordingly, not only quantity but also quality of education is equally important. This study explores the bi-directional relationships between educational quality and social inequality in inclusion and the role of their determinants, most importantly impact of institutions on social inclusion for four Asian countries. Educational quality has a positive and significant association with Social inclusion, teacher student ratio and primary education completion rate. Similarly, results supported the notion that improving education quality will affect social inclusion. Institutional change can play a significant role in such a case, which could only take place with public development policies based upon providence of quality and equity of education among masses.