quantitative methods - to improve the impact of trade on rural poverty and environmental sustainability. This study seeks to … improve understanding of the relationship between trade liberalization, poverty and the environment in the developing … countries. It is evident that issues of economic growth, poverty and the environment are well-known in the development debate …

We develop an overlapping generations model where consumption is the source of polluting emissions. Pollution stock … and vanishes beyond a critical level of pollution. We first show that multiple equilibria exist. More importantly, some … exhibit irreversible pollution levels although an abatement activity is operative. Thus, the simple engagement of maintenance …

A mutual link between poverty and environmental degradation is examined in an overlapping generations model with … evolution of environmental quality. This interaction creates a "poverty-environment trap," where a deteriorated environment … escaping the poverty-environment trap, although it has negative effects both on the environment and output when not in the trap …

emergence of differential fertility, but also for agents' exposure to environmental pollution because wealthier households live … effect of inequality and pollution on economic growth is amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides …