This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on …, we do find that financial globalization can be beneficial under the right circumstances. Empirically, good institutions … and quality of governance are crucial in helping developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly …

Among the developing countries of the world, those emerging markets that have sought some degree of integration into … world finance are characterized by higher per capita incomes, higher long-run growth rates, and lower output and consumption …

This lecture examines whether financial globalization is beneficial to developing countries by first examining the … to examine whether globalization, particularly of the financial kind, can help encourage financial and economic … development and argues that it can. However, financial globalization does not always work to encourage economic development …

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …

predictions using data on the foreign operations of US Protestant denominations in 2005 from the World Christian Database …