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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Greenstone, Michael - 2011
infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461447
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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
Clay, Karen - 2010
In a paper presented to the Royal Meteorological Society, Brodie (1905) presented a data series that presaged the modern Environmental Kuznets Curve: in the decades leading up to 1890, the number of foggy days in London rose steadily, but after 1891, the fogs began to subside. Brodie attributed...
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Economic Growth and the Environment : A Review of Theory and Empirics
Brock, William A. - 2004
This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth models to help us identify key features generating sustainable growth. We show how some combination of technological progress in abatement, intensified abatement, shifts in the...
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The Green Solow Model
Brock, William A. - 2004
technological progress in abatement, the EKC is a necessary by product of convergence to a sustainable growth path. Our amended … model, which we dub the Green Solow', generates an EKC relationship between both the flow of pollution emissions and income … per capita, and the stock of environmental quality and income per capita. The resulting EKC may be humped shaped or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468136
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The Environment and Globalization
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2003
Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical evidence, on average across countries, that openness to international trade undermines national attempts at environmental regulation through a race to the bottom' effect. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468604
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Trade, Growth and the Environment
Copeland, Brian R. - 2003
For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade. The debate was originally fueled by negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay round of GATT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468875
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring A Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F. - 2000
Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470730
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The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Andreoni, James - 1998
Evidence suggests that some pollutants follow an inverse-U-shaped pattern relative to countries' incomes. This relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution-income relationship. We show that the environmental Kuznets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472075
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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability
Santos, Paulo - 2016
This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In favorable states, expected herd grow is quasi-linear and...
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Breaking Boundaries : Lower Tail Dependence Can Triple the Economic Value of Index Insurance for Rural Households
Estefania-Salazar, Enrique; Carter, Michael R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-running index-based livestock insurance contract in Northern Kenya. We show that compared to the currently employed administrative …
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