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Document Type : Thesis 
Document Title :
THE ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF THE CO2 EMISSION IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE ROLE AND IMPACT
المحددات الاقتصادية لانبعثات ثاني اكسيد الكربون في المملكة العربية السعودية"الدور و الأثر"
 
Subject : Faculty of Economics and Management 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : The increase in carbon dioxide emissions due to industrial activity has exacerbated the harmful effects on the environment, which lead to an exacerbation of the economic problem and its growing negative effects on economic development. This study investigates the impact of economic growth, electricity consumption, financial development, foreign direct investment, and trade openness on the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To explore the long-run relationships between the variables, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodology, is employed to analyze time series data for the period 1980-2017. The long-term equilibrium relationship’s results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and each of economic growth, electricity consumption and commercial openness. An inverse relationship between emissions and both financial development and foreign direct investment is exested. This is while there was no relationship between the study variables and the carbon dioxide emissions in the short term, although there is a unidirectional causality from electricity consumption to financial development and from commercial openness to foreign direct investment. Therefore, The study recommended the necessity of economic diversification to support comprehensive economic development, by supporting investment in high-value sectors; Recognizing the negative impact of electricity consumption on emissions, which entails developing rationalization policies and adopting alternative technologies for electric power generation; Enhancing the role of the financial sector to make its positive impact more effective; Attracting foreign investment to improve the technical and knowledge level; and enhancing trade openness and develop policies to reduce the negative impact on increasing carbon dioxide emissions. 
Supervisor : Dr.. Nahla Sadruddin Samarkandi 
Thesis Type : Master Thesis 
Publishing Year : 1442 AH
2020 AD 
Co-Supervisor : Prof. Abla Abdul Hamid Bukhari 
Added Date : Sunday, August 23, 2020 

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Researcher Name (Arabic)Researcher Name (English)Researcher TypeDr GradeEmail
أمل حسن المالكيal-Maliki, Amal HassanResearcherMaster 

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