Purpose: The objective of this paper is twofold as follows: first, it explores the relationship between economic growth and the environment in the context of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in Iran, as a semi-industrialized and largest developing economy in the Middle East. Second, it...

It is widely believed that government intervention and especially public spending is required to overcome the market failure in providing public goods such as environmental quality. Nevertheless, the extent to which the fiscal environmental policy contributes to an improvement in environment is...