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We propose an adaptation of Hartwick's investment rule to models with population growth and show that following Hartwick's rule is equivalent to a time-invariant real per capita net national product. In the so-called DHSS model of capital accumulation and resource depletion the proposed...
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In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …
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recipient country. There is both private and public abatement of pollution, the latter being financed through emissions tax … recipient chooses the fraction of aid allocated to pollution abatement and/or the emission tax rate. At this equilibrium, an …We develop a North-South model of foreign aid and cross-border pollution resulting from production activities in the …
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world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
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between nations. Production of output necessarily involves pollution and degrading the environment. Therefore, environmental … question is how to introduce natural resource use in national income accounts to give meaning to the notion of sustainability …? National income accounts do not take into account non-market activities. Some progress has been made in the theory and …
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We study how public policies affects an economy where production emits pollutants and investment in productive assets raises the economy’s overall productivity. We explore two hypotheses about how the accumulation of pollutants affects human well-being. Under the first one, there is no limit...
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We construct a two-country model where pollution from production is transmitted across borders. Pollution abatement is … instruments in the two countries: emission taxes and funds allocated for public abatement activities. We examine the implications …
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
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