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potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …
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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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The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...
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The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
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We augment a Schumpeterian growth model with a public basic-research sector to examine how much a country should invest in basic research. We find that the closer the country is to the world’s technological frontier the more the government should invest in basic research. Basic-research...
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This paper develops a modality of liberalization for APEC, based on a sectoral level, as an alternative to the politically sensitive Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). This model, originally developed by Wonnacott (1994), argues for the liberalization of sectors on an MFN basis, where...
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, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …
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the environment. It looks at what has happened to the share of manufacturing industries by pollution classification over … happens to pollution intensity with and without trade reforms. The results indicate some positive impact of trade reforms on …
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pollution in developing countries. This paper argues that trade liberalization does not necessarily result in more pollution … policy will affect water pollution and groundwater depletion. Results of a partial equilibrium model, which relates changes … linked to firm level data for Metro Manila and Metro Cebu on water pollution, water use intensities and source of water. …
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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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