Will economic growth inevitably degrade the environment, throughout development? We present a household-level framework … emphasising the trade-off between consumption that causes pollution and pollution-reducing abatement. Our model provides a simple …

Will economic growth inevitably degrade the environment, throughout development? We present a household-level framework … emphasising the trade-off between consumption that causes pollution and pollution-reducing abatement. Our model provides a simple …

time, environmental quality initially deteriorates but eventually improves as the desire for a clean environment and the …

, starting from the theoretical background, represented by optimal growth models, models with environment as a factor of …, whose main feature is to ascertain the feasibility of policies combining economic growth and defence of the environment. …

. China is one of the largest economies in the world, with its gross domestic product (GDP) rising on an average above 9 …

environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … different consumption types, characterized by a different impact on the environment (i.e. dirty and clean consumption). We find …

environment, (ii) increasing returns in abate- ment giving rise to an EKC and (iii) sustained growth resulting from a linear final … potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most … empirical regularities on economic growth and the environment. …