Delinking economic growth from environmental degradation? A literature survey on the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis.
The effect of economic growth on environmental quality is much under dispute. A number of empirical studies have made the claim that there exists in some income ranges a positive relation between per capita income and some measure of environmental quality. According to this inverted U-shaped pattern...
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Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
1999
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Online Access: | http://epub.wu.ac.at/1490/1/document.pdf |