Economic Growth And Environmental Deterioration. An Analysis Of Sustainable Development In Ecuador

Abstract

This article is an inductive argument to evaluate the current relationship between Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in Ecuador through some variables such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and CO2 per capita, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), GDP per capita, Index of Economic Freedom and the Petroleum Production in a period of time from 1970 to 2014. It was analyzed some appraisal parameters and statistics tests to validate the multiple regression models in which CO2 and CO2 per capita do not present a high explanatory capacity. However, there is a direct and influent relationship between the Index of Economic Freedom and the emission of CO2 into the Ecuadorian environment.