"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …

This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor … sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four natural resource damage categories: (a) agricultural damage from …

"In this paper the authors investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from … across households attributable to income and education. Within households, they relate individuals' exposure to pollution in … (Dasgupta and others, 2004), which relate pollution variation across households to choices of cooking fuel, cooking locations …

"Indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heating is estimated to kill a million children annually in developing …, dung, and other biomass fuels. The econometric results indicate that fuel choice significantly affects indoor pollution …