The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …, when pollution, generated by a growth too fast, becomes widespread by a worsening of health conditions, coming finally to …

The paper develops a small open economy growth model with endogenous innovations, in the presence of environmental … externalities. Building on the Grossman ad Helpman (1991) analytical framework of endogenous growth in open economies, pollution is … distortions may in fact result in a reduction of the growth rate of the economy, unless investment in knowledge capital, that is …

them to maintain the systematic current account surpluses through which they stimulate their GDP growth and by means of … continuation of its growth. It is preparing to substitute the United States as a major engine of world economy. At the same time it …