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The effect of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, the indirect effects of environmental policies in the process were not sufficiently considered. This study uses a panel threshold methodology to...
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vintage differentiation of regulations (VDR5) regarding air pollution emission limit values for existing and new coal …
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pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a “war on pollution” in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …
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racial groups. Minorities are significantly more worried about air and water pollution than their white counterparts, even … after controlling for socioeconomic factors and pollution exposure. Our finding implies that residential sorting based on … exposure to pollution across racial groups …
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This study investigated the effect of trade liberalization on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. The exogenous reduction in trade restrictions due to countries' accession to the World Trade Organization is used as a measure of trade liberalization. Using the...
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The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
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We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …
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This note contributes to the literature on the air pollution consequences determined by hosting mega-events. An … econometric analysis is provided to document the increase in air pollution observed in Naples (Italy) during the G20 Ministerial …
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The presentation describes problem of flooding in Bangladesh: Among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. Frequent natural disasters, loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, impacts on lives and livelihoods. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges and...
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two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …
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