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In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by … an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and … vitally important to the development community, especially for the developing world, where income growth is a high priority …
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Part 1 of the paper reviews recent trends in fossil fuel use and associated externalities. It also argues that the recent run-up in international oil prices reflects growing concerns about supply constraints associated with declining spare capacity in OPEC, refining bottlenecks, and geopolitical...
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This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2009-2010 led to an...
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This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …
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This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …
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Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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the Poverty Environment Network project. Observed income is combined with predicted income (based on households? assets …
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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 …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and decomposing it into three components: a … policies) that occupy centerstage in the debate on trade and the environment. The decomposition is carried out for 1986-88 for …
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Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...
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