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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Abdeljelil, Mouna Ben; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data

He, Jie - 2017

In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by … an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and … and yet environmental pollution also needs to be carefully controlled. This study analyzes the impacts of economic …

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Energy and Emissions : Local and Global Effects of the Rise of China and India

Shalizi, Zmarak - 2016

Part 1 of the paper reviews recent trends in fossil fuel use and associated externalities. It also argues that the recent run-up in international oil prices reflects growing concerns about supply constraints associated with declining spare capacity in OPEC, refining bottlenecks, and geopolitical...

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Pollution and resource extraction : do they matter for the dynamics of growth?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2000

This paper shows that whether pollution occurs as a by-product of economic activity (which is supposed to be the case …

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The environmental Kuznets curve : exploring a fresh specification

Bradford, David F.; Schlieckert, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H. - 2000

between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …

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Trade openness and the environmental Kuznets curve : evidence from cities in the People's Republic of China

Fang, Zheng; Huang, Bihong; Yang, Zhuoxiang - 2018

wastewater pollution increases with economic development until the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) reaches the turning …

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An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development

Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2013

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...

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Generous sustainability

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2014 - This draft: 14 November, 2014

I define "generous sustainability" as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is shown...

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Building forward better : enhancing resilience of Asia and Pacific economies in a post-Covid-19 world

Huang, Zhenqian; Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing economic and broader development challenges as never before. Policy lessons from Asia and the Pacific's past experience in dealing with shocks show that focusing on economic growth alone is not enough. Rising inequality and environmental challenges increased the...

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