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A Positive Model of Growth and Pollution Controls
Jones, Larry E. - 1995
industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase without bound as more and more countries pass through the development phase or …-regulating' in the sense that as income increases, pollution controls also increase. However, this intuition is somewhat misleading … rate of development of the economy through market interactions and the extent of pollution regulation through collective …
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Development, Structure, and Transformation : Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth
McCord, Gordon C. - 2013
We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize that economic development is a complex process driven by economic, political, social, and biophysical forces. Some economists have argued that the patterns reflect mainly the...
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Clean Growth
Arkolakis, Costas; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission network of electricity ("the grid") that determine the supply and losses of energy in space. The local rate of clean energy...
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2009
Capital deepening (at least to the extent this can be measured) accounts for a large share of the variations in performance; increasingly during the past 25 years, this has meant ICT capital deepening. However, the capital contribution to growth varies considerably over time and across the four...
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The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth : Or, Does Information Technology Explain why Productivity Accelerated in the US but not the UK?
Basu, Susanto - 2003
We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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Immigrants and Natives : Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...
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Why is Growth better in the United States than in other Industrial Countries
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017
Although the official statistics imply that the rate of growth of real GDP in the United States has declined in recent years, it has still been substantially higher than the real growth rates in Europe and the other industrial countries, leading to higher real per capita incomes. This paper...
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The Wealth of Working Nations
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Ventura, Gustavo; Yao, Wen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...
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How Economic Development Influences the Environment
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output
Burke, Marshall - 2019
Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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