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A Review of Trade, Finance, Migration Openness and Environmental Quality under Globalisation

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DOI: 10.23977/jsoce.2022.041006 | Downloads: 20 | Views: 450

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Ruixun Xia 1

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1 School of Social and Sciences, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK

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Ruixun Xia

ABSTRACT

During the process of world integration, the relationship between openness and the environment has gradually become a nonnegligible issue. This paper provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the nexus between openness and the quality of the environment under the background of globalisation from three major economic-social perspectives: Trade, finance, and migration. The empirical researches find that the trade openness-environment nexus, financial openness-environment nexus and migration-environment nexus are ambiguous without consensus, the relationship could be negative, positive and insignificant, and the direction of linkages could be one way or two-way. In addition, this paper also summarises research limitations according to the existing literature. Future studies should address the research insufficiency mentioned in the article. Furthermore, the indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environmental quality could be a new sight for academics to explore based on trade openness, financial openness and migration.

KEYWORDS

Environmental Quality, Trade Openness, Financial Openness, Migration

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Ruixun Xia, A Review of Trade, Finance, Migration Openness and Environmental Quality under Globalisation. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 34-49. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.041006.

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