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Polluting technologies and sustainable economic development
Bertinelli, Luisito (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2006
period until which pollution may eventually decrease and cause this turning point to be reached at a higher level of … pollution. An empirical analysis using export data of vintage technologies from the US and Europe to developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731219
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The environmental aspect of “Making People Rich as the Top Priority” in China : a Marxian perspective
Faber, Malte; Petersen, Thomas - 2012
Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526191
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Do economic, financial and institutional developments matter for environmental degradation? : evidence from transitional economies
Tamazian, Artur; Bhaskara Rao, Buddhavarapu - 2009
Several studies have examined the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth. However, most of them did not take into account financial developments and institutional quality. Moreover, Stern (2004) noted that there are important econometric weaknesses in the earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523651
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Green and brown? : globalization and the environment
Boyce, James K. - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527046
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Structural disparities in carbon dioxide consumption and trade in the world economy
Ederer, Stefan; Weingärtner, Stefan - 2014
they externalise pollution to less developed countries. This paper offers a way to quantify climate responsibility by … value chain shifts. Footprint growth in the center is strongly linked to additional pollution and technical development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426553
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Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries : Mexico’s Clean Industry Program
Blackman, Allen - 2010
-riding on unrelated pollution control investments. We use plant-level data on more than 100,000 facilities to analyze the Clean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138832
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Decomposition Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union
Drastichová, Magdaléna - 2017
Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000-2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952172
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Local Pollution as a Determinant of Residential Electricity Demand
Salvo, Alberto - 2020
pollution. I access longitudinal data for Singapore, a newly affluent Asian city nation and arguably a harbinger of what is to … air conditioning, with widely varying particle pollution. Overall, residential electricity demand overall grows by 1 ….1% when PM2.5 rises by 10 ug/m3. I compare the pollution-electricity response to the well-known heat-electricity response, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823566
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Evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Emerging Eastern European Economies
Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2019
This study aims to investigate the relationship of economic development, measured as economic growth, energy use, trade and foreign direct investment one the one hand and environmental degradation (carbon dioxide (hereafter CO2) emissions) on the other hand, in eleven emerging Eastern European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868999
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Testing Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis at Firm Level in India
Vinayagamoorthi, Vasanth - 2016
industries is one of the major reasons for the enhanced level of pollution and fast degradation of environmental resources. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003054