Özet:

Multinational companies take advantage of the pollution paradise hypothesis, bringing polluting technologies directly to host countries within the framework of foreign investments (DYYs), causing negative impacts on the national environment and therefore the well-being of the population. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of DYY on the environmental quality in the Sahara African (SAA) countries, the impact of DYY on population well-being and thus the impact of environmental pollution on population well-being. Due to the presence of indirect effects in the analysis, a path analysis and a bootstrap approach have been used. In the models, the internal net entrance is the external variable and the real GDP per person (the welfare representative per person) is an internal variable. In addition, carbon dioxide emissions per person, death rates due to non-common diseases and health expenditure per person are the means of variables. According to the findings, the increase in DYY in SAA countries decreases the quality of the environment. There are variables between DYY and population well-being. Thus, when carbon dioxide emissions per person and death rates caused by non-common diseases intersect the relationship between DYY and population well-being, the increase in DYY reduces population well-being. When the mortality rate caused by non-common diseases mediates the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and population welfare per person, the increase in carbon dioxide emissions per person reduces population welfare per person. When the models include health spending per person, the increase in DYY increases population well-being. To this extent, SAA countries should look for an internal resource to improve prosperity instead of fully trusting DYY.

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