countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … calibration exercise suggests that the US or EU alone are too small to implement sustainable growth. A coalition of Annex I … countries that signed the Kyoto protocol can implement sustainable growth, yet required tax rates are very high. …

model the process of technological change. In keeping with recent theories of endogenous growth, we specify two ways in …

historic relationship between income distribution and income growth, the inverted-U relationship between per capita income and …

problem is thus not emissions but economic growth. Therefore the key question is whether or not the Kyoto Protocol provides an … opportunity for growth and thus for their economic development. The only way to accelerate the participation of developing … which enable their economic development. The dilemma of reducing emissions on a global scale while ensuring growth in the …

The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … the class of optimal growth models. These are usually studied from the point of view of the analytical conditions that … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …

endogenous growth model is presented, which also accounts for the possibility that technical change can be induced by … terms of cost efficiency, economic growth and R&D efforts of the three different specifications of technical change. …