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Explaining environmental Kuznets curves : how pollution induces policy and new technologies

Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2000

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Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves : how pollution induces policy and new technologies

Smulders, Sjak; Bretschger, Lucas - 2000

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology"...

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Causal interaction between FDI, corruption and environmental quality in the MENA region

Bardi, Wajdi; Hfaiedh, Mohamed Ali - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/14, pp. 1-12

The present work analyzes the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption on the quality of the … environment in the MENA region. Indeed, the magnitude of corruption and the quality of institutions are often cited as the main … recommend greater awareness of the harmful effects of corruption among political and economic actors. …

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