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Title:	Economic growth, carbon emission and environmental impacts in Malaysia: empirical analysis of computable general equilibrium model
Authors:	Kazi Sohag (P70149)
Supervisor:	Rawshan Ara Begum, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Environmental impacts Equilibrium model Economic development -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	6-May-2017
Description:	In Malaysia, the government has set a voluntary target to reduce 40% carbon emission intensity as well as a goal of achieving high income nation by 2020. Significant concern is whether the goals of higher economic growth and improved environmental quality (emission reduction) are mutually exclusive. Thus, this research aims to study the economic growth, carbon emission and environmental impacts in Malaysia. Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was applied to assess the dynamic impact of economic growth, energy use and population on CO2 emission from 1970 to 2009. To measure the effectiveness of emission reduction policies on macroeconomic sectors and environmental impacts, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model was applied by developing a social accounting matrix (SAM) for the year of 2010. The results found that both per capita energy consumption and GDP has a long term positive impacts with per capita carbon emissions, but population growth has no significant impacts. The simulation of CGE model demonstrates sectoral macro-economic and environmental impacts for the 12 current and potential policies including energy efficiency and price, renewable energy and introducing carbon tax. The results found that reduction of electricity and energy use policy contributes to decrease CO2 emission by 5% while final output declines by the same proportion. However, increasing share of renewable energy policy contributes to a reduction of 7% carbon emission without hampering the output growth whereas introducing carbon tax would reduce a large amount of emission with a lesser reduction of output. The study findings indicate that renewable energy would be the best option for achieving the emission reduction goal with continuous economic growth in Malaysia. Finally, the study findings would be useful for policy and decision making to strengthen environmental quality and economic development towards achieving sustainability in Malaysia.,Certification of Master's/Doctoral Thesis" is not available
Pages:	228
Call Number:	HD75.S664 2017 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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