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This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
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In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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This paper shows that whether pollution occurs as a by-product of economic activity (which is supposed to be the case …
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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators … in 2009 is signalled in advance. -- currency crises ; leading economic indicators ; signal approach ; Kazakhstan …
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-prudential indicators. The system will be tested using a case study referring to Kazakhstan. The main novelty of the study lies in designing … economic environment of Kazakhstan and in studying the interaction of these composite indicators. An additional innovation is … data which until now have not been used much in this area of research. -- banking crisis ; leading indicators ; Kazakhstan …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
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We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …
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