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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment : A Cross-Country Analysis

Welsch, Heinz - 2003

The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U …-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given …. Using cross section data for several indicators of pollution, the paper estimates the direct and the indirect effect of …

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International trade, foreign investment, and the environment

Rauscher, Michael - 2001

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the HEckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...

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Environmental policy in an integrated world economy

Schulze, Günther G.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 1998

This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In particular, we investigate how trade liberalisation and capital market integration affect environmental policy and thus environmental quality. Conversely, we also study how...

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Fiscal decentralization and pollution: Institutions matter

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mennel, Tim - 2012

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of …

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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...

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The use of trade measures for environmental purposes - globally and the Eu context

Vikhlyaev, Alexey - 2001

This paper assesses the scope for and implications of trade measures for environmental purposes in the WTO and the European Union. The assessment is illustrated by a number of cases that have tested the limits of legal provisions in the WTO and EU dealing with issues arising at the intersection...

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Global environmental problems and the strategic choice of technology

Konrad, Kai A. - 1992

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Economic Development and Environmental Protection

Galeotti, Marzio - 2003

scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) - the "turning point" - pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the …

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Komponenten einer globalen Umweltpolitik

Simonis, Udo E. - In: Die Erde bewahren - Dimensionen einer umfassenden …, (pp. 162-172). 1992

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Durch geringere Methanemissionen können Klimaziele kostengünstiger erreicht werden: Neun Fragen an Wolf-Peter Schill

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 39, pp. 657

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