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The study aims to assess India's growth-environment trade-off by exploring the relationship between ecological footprint and economic growth indicators.

July 10, 2026BRICS Journal of EconomicsOpen Access

The environmental sustainability corridor: is India moving along the right path?

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The study aims to assess India's growth-environment trade-off by exploring the relationship between ecological footprint and economic growth indicators.
Analysed data from 1971 to 2017 using ARDL cointegration and Toda-Yamamoto causality methods.
Evaluated the relationship with additional variables: urbanisation, trade, and biocapacity and employed GDP variants.
Utilized data from the World Development Indicators and Global Footprint Network.
A strong long-term cointegrating relationship was found among the variables impacting the ecological footprint.
Causality flows from urbanisation, GDP per capita, and biocapacity towards the ecological footprint, except for trade.
An 'N'-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve was not validated for India, indicating ongoing environmental compromise.

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This analysis examines the sustainability of India’s growth-environment balance, highlighting policy needs for improvement.

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Shahani et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a508b536eeac72a437a00c0 https://doi.org/10.3897/brics-econ.7.e151185

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The environmental sustainability corridor: is India moving along the right path?

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The environmental sustainability corridor: is India moving along the right path?

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