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Papers by uzair ali

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Jun 5, 2023

Introduction: Recently, the public and policymakers have acquired knowledge of the detrimental ef... more Introduction: Recently, the public and policymakers have acquired knowledge of the detrimental effects of pesticide use in agriculture. These include the threat to the health of chemical applicators and the threat that pesticide residues pose to the safety of food. The present study focuses on the farmers' social networks from a new perspective, along with the farmers' concurrent agricultural business and their impact on the farmer's safe production behavior. Methodology: The Endogenous Switching Probit Regression model and Binary Probit Group Regression model were employed for the empirical analysis of survey data collected from 585 households in the Xianyang, Yan'an, and Weinan districts of Shaanxi province, China. Results and Discussion: The results revealed that farmers' social networks can greatly affect farmers' safe production behavior. Additionally, we noted that the farmers' social networks may play a positive role in promoting the farmers' safe production behaviors of both concurrent agricultural business and nonconcurrent agricultural business farmers. Moreover, their correlation coefficients were found significant at a confidence level of 5%. Our findings suggest that the government needs to construct social networks among farmers by setting up a communication platform and promoting the acquaintance of safe production through reciprocal culture.

Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 1, 2022

The role of energy consumption in production processes has received considerable attention from a... more The role of energy consumption in production processes has received considerable attention from academic scholars in recent years because of the new assumptions in endogamous growth theory. Yet, the real effect of energy consumption on economic growth is still a controversial and inconclusive issue in the literature. Using a dynamic panel data technique, this study aimed to provide new insights into these issues by examining the effect of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth in developing and developed countries for the period 2002 to 2014. The results suggest that the effect of energy consumption on economic growth varies according to the income levels of the economies concerned. While non-renewable energy consumption was positively correlated with growth in developing countries, nonrenewable or renewable energy consumption was not found to have an effect on the economic performance of developed countries.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Energy & Environment

This study examines the long-run impact of coal usage decline from a disaggregated energy consump... more This study examines the long-run impact of coal usage decline from a disaggregated energy consumption perspective by considering the role of coal usage on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth. For this purpose, the study focuses on China and India as the leading coal-user countries; considers coal, oil, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption as explanatory variables; uses yearly data from 1990 to 2021, and applies a novel dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DYNARDL) simulations. Also, the Kernel-based regularized least squares (KRLS) approach is performed for robustness checks. The outcomes show that (i) there is cointegration between coal usage and CO2 emissions, and between coal usage and economic growth in the long run; (ii) coal usage is the most important indicator among explanatory variables; (iii) coal usage has a statistically significant impact on CO2 emissions in both China and India; (iv) however, coal usage is not significantly effective on econo...

Economics: the strategy and practice, 2022

Cereal trade is an important means of managing global food demand and maintaining national food s... more Cereal trade is an important means of managing global food demand and maintaining national food security. Trade-in cereal and other agricultural products are becoming an increasingly important way of managing resources between countries with rich resources and countries with limited resources. Grain production is the sector with the highest priority in the development of agriculture in Kazakhstan, while China is the world’s leading cereal producer and consumer. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the development of foreign trade with cereal between Kazakhstan and China by using the empirical data given by UN COMTRADE to highlight its efficiency by type of cereal traded from 2009 to 2018. The study used Revealed Comparative Advantage and Import Coverage indexes to achieve its goal. The results revealed that Kazakhstan’s most productive foreign trade has been achieved for wheat, barley, and rice, while the most productive cereals of China are rice, buckwheat, and sorghum. M...

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frontiers in Environmental Science

This study aims to demonstrate the impact of economic growth and energy consumption on environmen... more This study aims to demonstrate the impact of economic growth and energy consumption on environmental degradation in China, the top country that produced the highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, by considering that environmental degradation is one of the extreme challenges that the world and China have been facing. Parallel to this aim, this study uses dynamic ARDL (DYNARDL) simulations to investigate the long-run and short-run cointegration amongst the selected parameters from 1979 to 2019. The results of the long-run and short-run simulations illustrate that 1) economic growth increases environmental degradation; 2) growth in energy consumption worsens the environmental degradation situation; 3) urbanization improves the environmental situation in the long run, whereas growth in urban population increases CO2 emissions in the short-run. The research argues that improved energy production and management should be included in economic policy planning and the government should inve...

It is the common consensus of policymakers, scientists, and economists that the entire world is c... more It is the common consensus of policymakers, scientists, and economists that the entire world is confronting the problem of climate change. However, climate change forecasting studies suggests that the least developing economies are greatly exposed to climate change compared to developed economies (Ullah and Kahn, 2020). Thus, in recent times; Pakistan is among those countries whose government is facing one of the hot issues in the shape of climate change. Possibly, because of the dearth of resources in the country and geographically, it is located in the arid zone. The ranking issued by GCCVI (Global Climate Change Vulnerability Index) annual report 2020, according to this ranking, Pakistan ranked 5 most vulnerable country to climate change (Eckstein et al., 2020). Moreover, among the highest vulnerable region of the world, Pakistan ranked 7 globally (Kreft et al., 2013). As a result, historically this country has faced some serious damages in the shape of extreme droughts and dange...

Relations between China and Kazakhstan have a long history (Di Cosmo, 1994). The Great Silk Road ... more Relations between China and Kazakhstan have a long history (Di Cosmo, 1994). The Great Silk Road played a key role in the development of cooperation between countries (Ekinci, 2014). And now, thanks to the initiatives of the First President of Kazakhstan and the leaders of China, the world is experiencing the revival of the Silk Road in its new and modern form (Junxian and Yan, 2016). This became a good basis for raising bilateral Kazakh-Chinese relations to the level of an integrated strategic partnership (Kembayev, 2018). Mutually beneficial trade is fundamental to peace, equality, respect for sovereignty and the inviolability of borders (Jackson, 2006). Kazakhstan and China have over a couple decades of tremendous bilateral relations in terms of trade and economic cooperation (Rousseau, 2013). Currently, the legal framework of relations between Kazakhstan and China contains over 250 intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements in different fields (Huaxia, 2019). With regard...

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021

Abstract Climate change may have detrimental effects on income from crop farming in Pakistan and ... more Abstract Climate change may have detrimental effects on income from crop farming in Pakistan and according to the IPCC (2014) , the impacts of climate change will be more vigorous in the coming years. Despite a few studies we still have limited knowledge on how climate change can impact the crop farming economy in Pakistan. Considering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan as the study area, we attempted to fill this gap by analyzing the economic impacts of climate change on the net income from crop farming. Data from the 635 farm households and also climatic variables data were collected from five agro-ecological zones (AEZ) of the KP. The Ricardian method was employed for analysis purposes. The results revealed that the increase of annual average temperature and decreases in rainfall is strongly associated with net revenue deficits. The effects of increasing precipitation are observed to be useful but an increase in temperature is forecasted to be harmful to the net revenue. The effect of increased temperature in the summer season on NR ranged between US$-29 to US$35, and the effect in the winter season ranged between US$-14 to US$28 per hectare. The effect of decreased annual precipitation on NR in the summer season and winter season ranged between US$ 0 to US$-24 and US$

Ciência Rural, 2021

ABSTRACT: The current article looks at the effects of climate change on agriculture, especially c... more ABSTRACT: The current article looks at the effects of climate change on agriculture, especially crop production, and influence factors of agricultural development in terms of their rational use in Pakistan. Due to the dependence of economic development, and agriculture in the South Asian region on access to renewable national resources and the associated vulnerability to climate change, the limited financial and professional resources of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan require a clear definition of national priorities in this area. In the preparation of this article, general scientific cognition methods, in particular, empirical-theoretical methods were used. Grouping and classification methods have been used to process and systematize the data. The ability to change productivity, depending on the variation of the average annual air temperature and the average annual precipitation rate, was considered using a two-factor regression model. The main finding of the study is that temper...

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021

This study aims to contribute to the literature and examine the causal relationship between Pakis... more This study aims to contribute to the literature and examine the causal relationship between Pakistan's agricultural products export, industrialization, urbanization, transportation, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. For the last four decades, time-series data were used to employ short-run and long-run nexus between the selected variables by analyzing the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL). The Granger causality test was analyzed to estimate the causality directions. The unit root test results indicate that all the selected variables are stationary at the level and first difference. The bound test confirmed that all variables are cointegrated at a 1% significance level. Long-run estimates suggest that an increase in energy consumption will increase the export of agricultural products. An increase in urbanization, transportation, and carbon emission resulted in a decrease in agricultural products export in Pakistan. In the short run, an increase in industrialization, transportation, and energy consumption leads to an increase in agricultural products export. Increasing urbanization and carbon emission decrease the agricultural products export of Pakistan. Based on our findings, we recommend sustainable agricultural production, renewable energy consumption, low carbon emission technologies, and a green portfolio for sustainable agricultural products export.

Risk and Financial Management, 2020

Islamic banking & Finance and conventional banking are described as having the "same purpose... more Islamic banking & Finance and conventional banking are described as having the "same purpose but the essence and operations of Islamic banking are in accordance with Shariah law and have same "basic objectives" as other business and financial entities, i.e. "maximization of shareholder wealth". The speedy development of an Islamic banking system may improve financial insertion by providing an alternative to faith sensitive Muslims who are willingly excluded themselves from the system of conventional finance due to the nature of interest based. In Pakistan, the Islamic banking system eroding the growth of conventional banking so it’s worthy to explore the effect of religious belief the occurrence of a financial exclusion. The target population is from FATA and PATA maintain accounts at Islamic banks and conventional banks and a sample size of one hundred and fifty customers were picked up. The methodology focuses on the KAP Model (knowledge, attitude, practic...

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2018

The variations in farming risk are classified into three key categories: market liberalization, n... more The variations in farming risk are classified into three key categories: market liberalization, natural disasters such as floods or drought, and climate change. This study aims at filling the existing research gap by the assessment of risk attitude and risk perceptions toward various types of risks. Primary data of 600 respondents were collected through a structured questionnaire in four flood-prone districts namely Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, and Nowshera of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. Equally Likely Certainty Equivalent and risk matrix techniques were utilized in determining the risk attitude and risk perceptions among the farmers. A probit regression model was used to analyze the relationships among dependent and independent variables. Findings of the study show that majority of the farmers were risk-averse, and floods, high input prices, crop diseases, and excessive precipitation were the main risks perceived by the farmers. Results of the probit regression model indicated that age, education level, farm location, off-farm income, and access to market information were the main factors that affect the farmers' risk attitude and perceptions. The research offers essential findings that can be used by policy-makers in the farming sector and researchers to understand risk attitude and perceptions of farmers empirically.

MOJ Current Research & Reviews, 2019

The aim of this study is to investigate the processes involved in the formation of sustainable co... more The aim of this study is to investigate the processes involved in the formation of sustainable competitive advantages in the economy of the People's Republic of China, under the conditions of the instability in the world's economy. The subject of the research is the socioeconomic relations arising in the process of the formation of sustainable competitive advantages.

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Jun 5, 2023

Introduction: Recently, the public and policymakers have acquired knowledge of the detrimental ef... more Introduction: Recently, the public and policymakers have acquired knowledge of the detrimental effects of pesticide use in agriculture. These include the threat to the health of chemical applicators and the threat that pesticide residues pose to the safety of food. The present study focuses on the farmers' social networks from a new perspective, along with the farmers' concurrent agricultural business and their impact on the farmer's safe production behavior. Methodology: The Endogenous Switching Probit Regression model and Binary Probit Group Regression model were employed for the empirical analysis of survey data collected from 585 households in the Xianyang, Yan'an, and Weinan districts of Shaanxi province, China. Results and Discussion: The results revealed that farmers' social networks can greatly affect farmers' safe production behavior. Additionally, we noted that the farmers' social networks may play a positive role in promoting the farmers' safe production behaviors of both concurrent agricultural business and nonconcurrent agricultural business farmers. Moreover, their correlation coefficients were found significant at a confidence level of 5%. Our findings suggest that the government needs to construct social networks among farmers by setting up a communication platform and promoting the acquaintance of safe production through reciprocal culture.

Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 1, 2022

The role of energy consumption in production processes has received considerable attention from a... more The role of energy consumption in production processes has received considerable attention from academic scholars in recent years because of the new assumptions in endogamous growth theory. Yet, the real effect of energy consumption on economic growth is still a controversial and inconclusive issue in the literature. Using a dynamic panel data technique, this study aimed to provide new insights into these issues by examining the effect of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth in developing and developed countries for the period 2002 to 2014. The results suggest that the effect of energy consumption on economic growth varies according to the income levels of the economies concerned. While non-renewable energy consumption was positively correlated with growth in developing countries, nonrenewable or renewable energy consumption was not found to have an effect on the economic performance of developed countries.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Energy & Environment

This study examines the long-run impact of coal usage decline from a disaggregated energy consump... more This study examines the long-run impact of coal usage decline from a disaggregated energy consumption perspective by considering the role of coal usage on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth. For this purpose, the study focuses on China and India as the leading coal-user countries; considers coal, oil, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption as explanatory variables; uses yearly data from 1990 to 2021, and applies a novel dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DYNARDL) simulations. Also, the Kernel-based regularized least squares (KRLS) approach is performed for robustness checks. The outcomes show that (i) there is cointegration between coal usage and CO2 emissions, and between coal usage and economic growth in the long run; (ii) coal usage is the most important indicator among explanatory variables; (iii) coal usage has a statistically significant impact on CO2 emissions in both China and India; (iv) however, coal usage is not significantly effective on econo...

Economics: the strategy and practice, 2022

Cereal trade is an important means of managing global food demand and maintaining national food s... more Cereal trade is an important means of managing global food demand and maintaining national food security. Trade-in cereal and other agricultural products are becoming an increasingly important way of managing resources between countries with rich resources and countries with limited resources. Grain production is the sector with the highest priority in the development of agriculture in Kazakhstan, while China is the world’s leading cereal producer and consumer. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the development of foreign trade with cereal between Kazakhstan and China by using the empirical data given by UN COMTRADE to highlight its efficiency by type of cereal traded from 2009 to 2018. The study used Revealed Comparative Advantage and Import Coverage indexes to achieve its goal. The results revealed that Kazakhstan’s most productive foreign trade has been achieved for wheat, barley, and rice, while the most productive cereals of China are rice, buckwheat, and sorghum. M...

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frontiers in Environmental Science

This study aims to demonstrate the impact of economic growth and energy consumption on environmen... more This study aims to demonstrate the impact of economic growth and energy consumption on environmental degradation in China, the top country that produced the highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, by considering that environmental degradation is one of the extreme challenges that the world and China have been facing. Parallel to this aim, this study uses dynamic ARDL (DYNARDL) simulations to investigate the long-run and short-run cointegration amongst the selected parameters from 1979 to 2019. The results of the long-run and short-run simulations illustrate that 1) economic growth increases environmental degradation; 2) growth in energy consumption worsens the environmental degradation situation; 3) urbanization improves the environmental situation in the long run, whereas growth in urban population increases CO2 emissions in the short-run. The research argues that improved energy production and management should be included in economic policy planning and the government should inve...

It is the common consensus of policymakers, scientists, and economists that the entire world is c... more It is the common consensus of policymakers, scientists, and economists that the entire world is confronting the problem of climate change. However, climate change forecasting studies suggests that the least developing economies are greatly exposed to climate change compared to developed economies (Ullah and Kahn, 2020). Thus, in recent times; Pakistan is among those countries whose government is facing one of the hot issues in the shape of climate change. Possibly, because of the dearth of resources in the country and geographically, it is located in the arid zone. The ranking issued by GCCVI (Global Climate Change Vulnerability Index) annual report 2020, according to this ranking, Pakistan ranked 5 most vulnerable country to climate change (Eckstein et al., 2020). Moreover, among the highest vulnerable region of the world, Pakistan ranked 7 globally (Kreft et al., 2013). As a result, historically this country has faced some serious damages in the shape of extreme droughts and dange...

Relations between China and Kazakhstan have a long history (Di Cosmo, 1994). The Great Silk Road ... more Relations between China and Kazakhstan have a long history (Di Cosmo, 1994). The Great Silk Road played a key role in the development of cooperation between countries (Ekinci, 2014). And now, thanks to the initiatives of the First President of Kazakhstan and the leaders of China, the world is experiencing the revival of the Silk Road in its new and modern form (Junxian and Yan, 2016). This became a good basis for raising bilateral Kazakh-Chinese relations to the level of an integrated strategic partnership (Kembayev, 2018). Mutually beneficial trade is fundamental to peace, equality, respect for sovereignty and the inviolability of borders (Jackson, 2006). Kazakhstan and China have over a couple decades of tremendous bilateral relations in terms of trade and economic cooperation (Rousseau, 2013). Currently, the legal framework of relations between Kazakhstan and China contains over 250 intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements in different fields (Huaxia, 2019). With regard...

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021

Abstract Climate change may have detrimental effects on income from crop farming in Pakistan and ... more Abstract Climate change may have detrimental effects on income from crop farming in Pakistan and according to the IPCC (2014) , the impacts of climate change will be more vigorous in the coming years. Despite a few studies we still have limited knowledge on how climate change can impact the crop farming economy in Pakistan. Considering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan as the study area, we attempted to fill this gap by analyzing the economic impacts of climate change on the net income from crop farming. Data from the 635 farm households and also climatic variables data were collected from five agro-ecological zones (AEZ) of the KP. The Ricardian method was employed for analysis purposes. The results revealed that the increase of annual average temperature and decreases in rainfall is strongly associated with net revenue deficits. The effects of increasing precipitation are observed to be useful but an increase in temperature is forecasted to be harmful to the net revenue. The effect of increased temperature in the summer season on NR ranged between US$-29 to US$35, and the effect in the winter season ranged between US$-14 to US$28 per hectare. The effect of decreased annual precipitation on NR in the summer season and winter season ranged between US$ 0 to US$-24 and US$

Ciência Rural, 2021

ABSTRACT: The current article looks at the effects of climate change on agriculture, especially c... more ABSTRACT: The current article looks at the effects of climate change on agriculture, especially crop production, and influence factors of agricultural development in terms of their rational use in Pakistan. Due to the dependence of economic development, and agriculture in the South Asian region on access to renewable national resources and the associated vulnerability to climate change, the limited financial and professional resources of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan require a clear definition of national priorities in this area. In the preparation of this article, general scientific cognition methods, in particular, empirical-theoretical methods were used. Grouping and classification methods have been used to process and systematize the data. The ability to change productivity, depending on the variation of the average annual air temperature and the average annual precipitation rate, was considered using a two-factor regression model. The main finding of the study is that temper...

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021

This study aims to contribute to the literature and examine the causal relationship between Pakis... more This study aims to contribute to the literature and examine the causal relationship between Pakistan's agricultural products export, industrialization, urbanization, transportation, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. For the last four decades, time-series data were used to employ short-run and long-run nexus between the selected variables by analyzing the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL). The Granger causality test was analyzed to estimate the causality directions. The unit root test results indicate that all the selected variables are stationary at the level and first difference. The bound test confirmed that all variables are cointegrated at a 1% significance level. Long-run estimates suggest that an increase in energy consumption will increase the export of agricultural products. An increase in urbanization, transportation, and carbon emission resulted in a decrease in agricultural products export in Pakistan. In the short run, an increase in industrialization, transportation, and energy consumption leads to an increase in agricultural products export. Increasing urbanization and carbon emission decrease the agricultural products export of Pakistan. Based on our findings, we recommend sustainable agricultural production, renewable energy consumption, low carbon emission technologies, and a green portfolio for sustainable agricultural products export.

Risk and Financial Management, 2020

Islamic banking & Finance and conventional banking are described as having the "same purpose... more Islamic banking & Finance and conventional banking are described as having the "same purpose but the essence and operations of Islamic banking are in accordance with Shariah law and have same "basic objectives" as other business and financial entities, i.e. "maximization of shareholder wealth". The speedy development of an Islamic banking system may improve financial insertion by providing an alternative to faith sensitive Muslims who are willingly excluded themselves from the system of conventional finance due to the nature of interest based. In Pakistan, the Islamic banking system eroding the growth of conventional banking so it’s worthy to explore the effect of religious belief the occurrence of a financial exclusion. The target population is from FATA and PATA maintain accounts at Islamic banks and conventional banks and a sample size of one hundred and fifty customers were picked up. The methodology focuses on the KAP Model (knowledge, attitude, practic...

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2018

The variations in farming risk are classified into three key categories: market liberalization, n... more The variations in farming risk are classified into three key categories: market liberalization, natural disasters such as floods or drought, and climate change. This study aims at filling the existing research gap by the assessment of risk attitude and risk perceptions toward various types of risks. Primary data of 600 respondents were collected through a structured questionnaire in four flood-prone districts namely Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, and Nowshera of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. Equally Likely Certainty Equivalent and risk matrix techniques were utilized in determining the risk attitude and risk perceptions among the farmers. A probit regression model was used to analyze the relationships among dependent and independent variables. Findings of the study show that majority of the farmers were risk-averse, and floods, high input prices, crop diseases, and excessive precipitation were the main risks perceived by the farmers. Results of the probit regression model indicated that age, education level, farm location, off-farm income, and access to market information were the main factors that affect the farmers' risk attitude and perceptions. The research offers essential findings that can be used by policy-makers in the farming sector and researchers to understand risk attitude and perceptions of farmers empirically.

MOJ Current Research & Reviews, 2019

The aim of this study is to investigate the processes involved in the formation of sustainable co... more The aim of this study is to investigate the processes involved in the formation of sustainable competitive advantages in the economy of the People's Republic of China, under the conditions of the instability in the world's economy. The subject of the research is the socioeconomic relations arising in the process of the formation of sustainable competitive advantages.