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impact of pollution on human health. This allows for a better understanding of the actual effects of a wide range of human …
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We fit CES and VES production functions to data from a numerical bottom-up optimization model of electricity supply with clean and dirty inputs. This approach allows for studying high shares of clean energy not observable today and for isolating mechanisms that impact the elasticity of...
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critical case of air pollution control policies in China, I advance a theory of the political pollution cycle to fathom the … laxer regulation of pollution during their tenure so that the delivery of political achievements would bode well for their …
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This paper investigates the relationship between environmental degradation, income and regulation for the Alberta province of Canada. This issue assumes a value added since Alberta is the third-largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela. The province is interested by large...
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Based on the Solow growth model, this paper builds a combinatorial model for economic growth under environmental pressure. Using the model, the optimal number of industries in an economy can be computed, and the “optimal number” can be regarded as a criterion for decision making concerning...
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We seek to explain the emergence of spatial heterogeneity regarding development and pollution on the basis of … endogenous growth and convergence behavior, and pollution accumulation in each country with pollution diffusion between countries … capital and pollution rates of flow, spatial heterogeneity emerges even between two economies with identical fundamental …
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This paper investigates the short-run effects of economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement for 189 countries over the period 1961-2010. Contrary to what has previously been reported, we conclude that there is no strong evidence...
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We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for …
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the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), stating that environmental pollution follows an inverted u-shaped course with … levels of pollution, our estimates imply that complexity may even exacerbate environmental issues in the short and middle run …
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emissions and a unidirectional causality from pollution to energy consumption. For Gambia, economic growth causes CO2 emissions …
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