Background: This article offers empirical evidence regarding one of the oldest controversies in the economics literature: interfaces between income level and the environment. In spite of the significant debate about possible causal relations among income, pollution and environmental degradation,...

This paper proposes a suitable theoretical framework for operationalizing the capability approach using the latent variable methodology. A structural equation model is specified to account for the unobservable and multidimensional aspects characterizing the concept of human development and to...

This paper proposes a suitable theoretical framework for operationalizing the capability approach using the latent variable methodology. A structural equation model is specified to account for the unobservable and multidimensional aspects characterizing the concept of human development and to...