expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between …

. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …

equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and … activity tends to become less attractive with pollution, and thus less likely. Moreover, we provide a simple necessary and …