Today, production is carried out depending on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels pollute the air as they contain high levels of carbon. Many studies have been carried out on the economic costs of air pollution. However, in the present study, unlike the former ones, economic growth's relationship with the COVID-19 virus in addition to air pollution was examined. The COVID-19 virus, which was initially reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and affected the whole world, has caused many cases and deaths. Researchers have been going on studying how the virus is transmitted. Some of these studies suggest that the number of virus-related cases increases in regions with a high level of air pollution. Based on this fact, it is thought that air pollution will increase the number of COVID-19 cases in G7 Countries where industrial production is widespread. Therefore, the negative aspects of economic growth, which currently depends on fossil fuels, is tried to be revealed. The research was carried out for the period between 2000-2019. Panel cointegration test and panel causality analysis were used for the empirical analysis. Particulate matter known as PM2.5[1] was used as an indicator of air pollution. Consequently, a positive long-term relationship has been identified between PM2.5 and economic growth. This relationship also affects the number of COVID-19 cases. "Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is an air pollutant that poses the greatest risk to health globally, affecting more people than any other pollutant (WHO, 2018). Chronic exposure to PM2.5 considerably increases the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in particular (WHO, 2018). For these reasons, population exposure to (outdoor or ambient) PM2.5 has been identified as an OECD Green Growth headline indicator\" (OECD.Stat).

In this study, using OECD Countries 2000-2019 annual data, renewable energy in the OECD Countries (Particulate Matter) PM2.5[1] and economic growth. With the work, it is hoped that the contribution of renewable energies to economic growth by acting on the fact that renewable energy can reduce costs and air pollution. For analyzes, It was used “Johansen Cointegration Test” and “Error Correction Model”. According to this; there was a positive relationship between economic growth and renewable energy and a long-term negative relationship between PM2.5.   [1] PM, hava kirliliği için yaygın bir proxy göstergesidir. Diğer kirleticilerden daha fazla insanı etkiler. PM’nin ana bileşenleri sülfat, nitratlar, amonyak, sodyum klorür, siyah karbon, mineral tozu ve sudur. Havada asılı duran organik ve inorganik maddelerin katı ve sıvı parçacıklarının karmaşık bir karışımından oluşur. 10 mikron veya daha küçük çaplı partiküller (≤ PM10) akciğerlerin derinliklerine nüfuz edebilir ve yerleşebilirken, sağlığa daha fazla zarar veren partiküller 2,5 mikron veya daha küçük (≤ PM2.5)çaplı partiküllerdir. PM2.5 akciğer bariyerini geçebilir ve kan sistemine girebilir. Parçacıklara kronik maruziyet, kardiyovasküler ve solunum yolu hastalıklarının yanı sıra akciğer kanseri geliştirme riskine katkıda bulunur (WHO, 2020).

Despite the fact that the global economy grows, the income inequality increases. The Income Inequality is an important factor which affects the human life negatively both in the financial and the social manner. It has been made lots of investigations whose topic is the economic growth and the income inequality. In this paper, it has been compared the connection between the economic growth and the income inequality in terms of the polity in the countries. Therefore, it has been desired to be brought a different perspective into the literature on the subject of the economic growth and the income inequality. It has been given information about the situation in the world especially aimed at the income inequality. The correlation of “Gini Coefficient” and “Economic Growth” belonging to the democratic countries (USA, United Kingdom and Germany) and the autocratic countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria and Gabon) in terms of their polities has been tested with the Panel Data Methodology. Empirical analysis involves the period of 1995-2015. In the results obtained by making Panel Data Model, it has been ascertained a negative correlation between the Economic Growth and the Income Inequality for the democratic countries. However in the autocratic countries, it has been seen that this correlation is very weak.

Dear Editor, Please find attached the paper, A Study on Economic Growth and Well-Being Metrics of Better Life Index (The Case of BRICS Countries) by Rıdvan Karacan, which I would like to submit for possible publication to. The difference of this paper from other studies is that it involves BRICS; Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil) Russia (Russian Federation), India (Republic of India), China (People’s Republic of China),South Africa (Republic of South Africa) countries and the method which is used. Our claim is the fact that the economic growth doesn’t represent the welfare increase by itself. This study has made with this aim. Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript Yours sincerely, Rıdvan Karacan Associate Professor