Abstract:
The study examine to the impact of Environmental Pollution on Ethiopian Economic Growth over the period of 41 years that spans from 1980 to 2021 by using Auto regressive Distributed Lag approach (ARDL) to assess Short-run and Long run Impact of Environmental pollution on Ethiopia Economic growth. Currently industrial and economic activities are increasingly concentrated in city areas, it have become a new focus of resource consumption and chemical emissions.(J Clean Prod and Chemosphere. 2019 ).the main problem of Environmental Pollution in Ethiopia are on human health ,animal health, the reduction of product and production in GDP. The assessment of the impacts of environmental pollution has been carried out by first of all making a typology of impacts and a review of studies that cover them. This was done at the national level by estimating the Growth Domestic Product (GDP) lost. The significance of the study have been identifies the impact of environmental pollution on Ethiopian economic growth. EP especially Land Pollution, Deforestation, Soil Pollution, air Pollution, Chemical Pollution, Surface water pollution, Industrial pollution, Transport pollution and solid waste was not well focused in Ethiopia. The research is applied research, as it is intended to find a solution to alleviate the immediate environmental problems of the affected society and farmers. The research under discussion needs complex information that may constitute both quantitative as well as qualitative data.
