New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … countries. As the authors show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when …

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In both countries the higher the level of community income, the lower the pollution intensity of local plants. This … paper provides support for the idea that community-based pressure on plants to abate pollution exists, even in the presence … public in regulating pollution, using the instruments at their disposal. But when formal regulatory mechanisms are absent or …

When formal regulation is weak or absent, communities often use other channels to induce pollution abatement by local … factories in a process of "informal regulation." The resulting "pollution equilibrium" reflects the relative bargaining power of … the community and the plant. This note uses Indonesian data from 1989-90 on plant-level organic water pollution to test …

New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …