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Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis valid for developing countries? A survey

He, Jie - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

between growth and pollution –which does not only imply challenges but also opportunities for developing countries: indeed …-existing techniques in pollution abatement, they will be able to tunnel or leap-frog the EKC trajectory derived from developed countries …

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Population growth in polluting industrialization

Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 1, pp. 229-247

pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and environmental … concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase in capital intensity, population growth and pollution, namely a … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …

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Learning about compliance under asymmetric information

Arguedas, Carmen; Rousseau, Sandra - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 55-73

Over time, inspection agencies gather information about firms’ pollution levels and this information may allow agencies …

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Economic growth, industrialization, and the environment

Cherniwchan, Jevan - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 442-467

In this paper, I argue the compositional shift from agricultural to industrial production – industrialization – is a central determinant of changes in environmental quality as economies develop. I develop a simple two-sector model of neoclassical growth and the environment in a small open...

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The Climate Change Learning Curve

Leach, Andrew J. - Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal (École … - 2004

The key element in the tension between those who believe climate change is an issue and those who do not is essentially the question of whether we are merely in a long period of shock-induced above average temperatures or if we have led to this increase in temperatures by anthropogenic carbon...

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