This paper addresses the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve for China, using a sampleof thirty regions and … covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute …

industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …

Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of … this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not … water pollution. …

This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel …

This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …

potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …

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 …

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 …