Economic development in Southeast Asia hasbeen connected with environmental degradation. Its cause is mainly attributed torapid industrialization, coupled with urbanization and export growth, whereas thevicious circle of the poverty and the contamination is a minor case. The environmental damage...

Purpose – Aims to focus on air pollution as one of the environmental problems that tends to improve at higher income levels. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a combination of narrative with argument and analysis. Findings – Between the early 1970s and the mid‐1980s, air...

This paper constructs and uses the global input-output (GIO) table with 35 industries, 29 endogenous countries and 59 exogenous countries, and develops new indices to measure the degree of shock transmission in terms of intermediate goods and value-added embodied in production induced by...