The Impacts of Agricultural Trade on Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution: Evidence from Bangladesh Using ARDL in the Presence of Structural Breaks

Agricultural trade significantly promotes the economic boom in developing countries. Extensive traditional agricultural production methods have increased pressure on environment by expanding trade, which has attracted attention of many scholars. This study aims to empirically examine impacts growth and environmental pollution Bangladesh from 1972 2019, using an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model with a structural break long-run short-run determinants Bangladesh. The ARDL bounds analysis methodology showed that it does not support hypothesis led long-run. results suggest relationship between growth, energy, FDI towards pollution, indicating positive relationship. Furthermore, short run, indicates drivers pollution. Therefore, is recommended enhancement liberalization policies should ensure cleaner technologies products could help reduce