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This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...
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This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003). We find only partial support...
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economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn … environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world's economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
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world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
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In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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A number of empirical studies have been carried out to assess the impact of sustainable development assistance (SDA) and aid on environmental quality in poor countries, but these studies have been characterized by weak theoretical anchor. It is against this background that this paper provides a...
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positively and negatively. Therefore, the basic aim of this paper is demonstrating that cities can resist pollution and improve …
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FinTech is a new term combining finance and technology. The term did not exist until the end of 2014. Although there is agreement over what finance is, there is no agreed upon definition of technology. It changes with time. American sociologist Read Bain wrote in 1937 that technology includes...
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This paper studies the asset pricing implications of industrial pollution. A long-short portfolio constructed from … remains significant after controlling for risk factors. We examine several possible explanations for this pollution premium … evidence suggests that the pollution premium is attributable to environmental policy uncertainty, which constitutes a …
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