The nexus between development and environment has been a debatable topic for years, more so when foreign direct investment (FDI is used to accelerate the economy. Since environmental Kuznets curve may not be achievable by all economies and many studies have not been able to establish a consistent relationship between FDI and environment, this study determines the liaison between FDI, GDP, and pollution in India with time series data from 1990 to 2015. While per capita GDP plotted against per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emission indicates an alarming positive relation, the co-integration between FDI, GDP, and CO2 tested using unit root test statistics (augmented Dickey–Fuller test) for stationarity and then by Johansen and Juselius’s multivariate co-integration technique show a long-run co-integration. Since the existence of a relationship between variables does not prove causality, the variables are phrased in a vector error correction (VEC) form and vector error correction mechanism (VECM) Granger causality/block exogeneity Wald test which reveals that FDI has a positive and significant impact on pollution and GDP attracts FDI. This transitive relation suggests that FDI in pollution-controlling technology would be a feasible solution to sustainable development.
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