金砖国家可再生能源消费、教育与经济增长关系的研究

Renewable Energy Consumption,Education and Economic Growth in BRICS

研究基于两个方面,一是可再生能源消费对金砖国家(巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国、南非)经济增长的影响,二是金砖国家是否能通过教育改变可再生能源消费对经济增长的影响。采用面板数据分析法(完全修正的普通最小二乘法、混合普通最小二乘法和固定效应法),对1994年到2015年的数据进行分析。三种估算方法下的两个模型都表明,可再生能源消费对经济增长有明显的负面影响,而金砖国家通过教育能够显著减少这种负面影响。换言之,教育能够改变可再生能源对经济增长的影响。建议金砖国家应该增加教育投资,因为教育很有可能增强可再生能源消费对经济增长的促进作用。

The study investigated two aspects,namely,(1)the impact of renewable energy consumption on economic growth in Brazil,Russia,India,China,South Africa(BRICS)and(2)whether education is a channel through which renewable energy consumption affects economic growth in BRICS.Panel data analysis such as fully modified ordinary least squares,pooled ordinary least squares and fixed effects methods were used with data ranging from 1994 to 2015.Both models across all the three estimation techniques show that renewable energy consumption had a significant negative effect on economic growth in support of the findings.What is also clear across all the three panel data analysis methods used is that education reduced the size of the negative effect of renewable energy consumption on economic growth in BRICS.In other words,education is a channel through which renewable energy consumption’s influence on economic growth is enhanced.The implication of the study is that BRICS countries are therefore urged to invest more in education as that is more likely to enhance the impact of renewable energy consumption on economic growth.