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Inequality, environmental protection and growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, T. I. - 2000
Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low-income inequality (such as the Nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...
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Debt, poverty and resource management in a rural smallholder economy
Barbier, Edward B.; López, Ramón - 1998
This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608455
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Corruption, income inequality, and poverty in the United States
Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Gunalp, Burak - 2008
In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …
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Does S. Kuznets' belief question the environmental Kuznets curves?
Bousquet, Alain; Favard, Pascal - 2000
This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U-shape relation between environmental degradation and income per...
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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve
Borghesi, Simone - 2000
This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608646
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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
In this paper, we assume that redistribution modifies the community structure of an economy and generates both intra and intergenerational mobility. In a world in which neighbourhood attributes and family backgrounds are important to determine the investment effort and the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608803
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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies
Dellink, Rob B.; Hofkes, Marjan W. - 2006
This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312375
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Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Economies: An Econometric Exercise
Bellini, Elena; Gasparino, Ugo; Del Corpo, Barbara; … - 2007
In recent years, interest in tourism has spread rapidly throughout many small and medium European cities, which previously have not necessarily considered themselves as tourist destinations. Tourism is increasingly seen as a potential lever towards high economic growth, measured both in terms of...
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Trust and Growth
Dincer, Oguzhan; Uslaner, Eric - 2007
Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing prices by 1.25 percentage points, and the growth...
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A further step into the ELGH and TLGH for Spain and Italy
Cortés_Jiménez, Isabel; Pulina, Manuela - 2006
Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion as a potential source of economic growth of the country. However, the understanding of the relationship between exports and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312651