New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …

differences in environmental policies across countries has led to significant 'pollution havens.' Trade policies to 'level the … playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …

"globalization years" of 1986-2004. Controlling for trade openness and two indicators of financial globalization, the authors find … the output costs of promoting high interest rates to attract capital flows in a global world. These findings are robust to … the treatment of endogenous globalization measures. …

substantial welfare benefits for the world, and for China and India, and to act as a powerful offset to the terms-of-trade losses …

100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate …