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 …

The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …

Global income inequality captures income differences among all individuals around the world. Global inequality around … the world increased from 1820 to 1990 as incomes in richer countries grew faster than incomes in relatively poorer … world decreased as populous and relatively poorer countries, in particular China, reduced the income gap with richer parts …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two … potential anti-globalization sentiment is the emergence of a global middle class: a group of consumers who demand access to, and …

In a globalizing world, cities at or near the apex of the international urban hierarchy are among the favored few … preeminence in China, it is the Asian city most likely to become a global center. The authors explore the makings of a world city …

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 …

endowments and environmental policies have only marginally affected the pollution content of world trade during the 1986 …This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components-a "deep …

The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 … strengths and weaknesses, and their implications for actual policymaking, especially in the presence of globalization. This is …