(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020) Sadik-Zada, Elkhan Richard; Loewenstein, Wilhelm
The present inquiry addresses the income-environment relationship in oil-producing
countries and scrutinizes the further drivers of atmospheric pollution in the respective settings.
The existing literature that tests the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis within the framework of
the black-box approaches provides only a bird’s-eye perspective on the long-run income-environment
relationship. The aspiration behind this study is making the first step toward the disentanglement of
the sources of carbon dioxide emissions, which could be employed in the pollution mitigation policies
of this group of countries. Based on the combination of two strands of literature, the environmental
Kuznets curve conjecture and the resource curse, the paper at hand proposes an augmented theoretical
framework of this inquiry.