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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Borck, Rainald - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno - 2011

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development,' its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks.' We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...

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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Garg, Teevrat - 2020

Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...

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What Matters for Environmental Quality in the Next-11 Countries : Economic Growth or Income Inequality?

Padhan, Hemachandra - 2018

This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption on carbon emissions in a sample of Next-Eleven (N-11) countries. It uses modern econometric techniques to highlight a long-run interplay between selected variables in the carbon...

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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaîd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth : What Causes What in MENA Countries

Omri, Anis - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990-2011. Our results indicate that there is evidence of bidirectional causality between...

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Melancholy Hues : The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

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Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation : Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do Minh; Cuong Viet … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...

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To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies

Arbel, Yuval - 2019

We study how the objective of the contributions affects the willingness to contribute to real-life public goods. We conducted three treatments of a fundraising experiment among religious Jewish students in which the contributions were assigned to finance sustainable supplies and the ongoing...

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Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports

Unfried, Kerstin; Wang, Feicheng - 2022

examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our difference-in-differences results show that …

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