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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...
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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...
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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 …
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-riding on unrelated pollution control investments. We use plant-level data on more than 100,000 facilities to analyze the Clean …
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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industries is one of the major reasons for the enhanced level of pollution and fast degradation of environmental resources. This …
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environmental pollution. Scholars have estimated turning point incomes for various pollutants within and across countries. However … countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In … countries. Further, our examination of the effect of democracy on air pollution reveals an insignificant effect for CO2 for both …
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The majority of the studies on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) consider production-based indicators for environmental quality, in this way they ignore the consequences of international trade. This study applies methods of input-output analysis to obtain CO2 consumption-based indicators to...
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