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due to changes in growth, inequality and poverty triangle in Pakistan over the period 1980 – 2011 by using multivariate … growth & carbon emissions and economic growth & poverty while there is a positive relationship between i) economic growth … & income inequality; and ii) poverty & income inequality. On the long-run, there is a significant positive relationship between …
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Inequality is a burning issue in our society but plays only a limited rule in the design of regulations. This article rejects arguments in favor of this neglect and forges a vision for moving forward. It argues in favor of features of the existing system that promote inequality: the...
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growth will be dampened by the negative effects of income inequality and poverty on energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa … (Atkinson coefficient, Gini index and the Palma ratio) should not exceed 0.669, 0.568 and 6.110, respectively. On the poverty … level in Sub-Saharan Africa, the study reports that the poverty headcount ratios (hc$144ppp2011, hc$186ppp2011 and hc$250ppp …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the environmental income drives economic growth of a large open country.Design/methodology/approach – The authors detect that the relative environmental income has double effect of “conspicuous consumption” on the international...
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The international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this allocation may even be driven by historically determined structural patterns, with a core group of...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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The objective of this paper is to provide an axiomatic foundation to the concept of ecological footprint indices. For this purpose, we propose five axioms representing general properties which any ecological footprint measure should fulfill. It can be shown that there exists a unique index which...
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