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The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...
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scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) the turning point pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the historic …
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The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …
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Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
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Economic globalization affects the environment and sustainable development in several ways and through various channels. The purpose of this paper is to review the key links between globalization and the environment. The paper intends to consider the major issues in multilateral economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603123
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
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scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) - the "turning point" - pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325114
The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325121
The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...
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The Climate Change debate has drawn attention to the problem of greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most important issues in the policy debate is the role that should be played by developing countries in joining the commitment of developed countries to reduce GHG...
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