Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …

industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization …

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 …

This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …