Environmental Performance Index and Economic Growth: evidence from some Developing Countries

The Sustainable economic development is indebted to appropriate use of water, soil, natural resources and the available capacity of human force. The purpose of present paper is to estimate and evaluate the relationship between Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and economic growth in selected developing countries. The studies about this issue have emphasized on economic growth in environmentʹs demolition. But the impact of improvements in environment quality is pointed in this paper, which is the main distinction of this study in comparison with other studies on this issue. To do so we have used a sample of 20 developing countries for which the necessary data were available in 2008. Our findings based on cross-section Weighted Least Squares (WLS)econometrics method indicate that the impact of Environmental Performance Index on economic growth in the countries under consideration is positive and significance