scholarly journals Environmental Kuznets Curve and Income Inequality: Pooled Mean Group Estimation for Asian Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 157-179
Author(s):  
Saif Ullah ◽  
◽  
Masood Sarwar Awan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Pooled Mean Group ◽  
Asian Developing Countries

Technical progress and pollution abatement: an economic view of selected technologies and practices

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Economic View ◽  
Per Capita

The paper first presents evidence from the engineering literature on air and water pollution control, which shows that, when the pollution abatement technologies are in place, large reductions in pollution have been achieved at costs that are small relative to the costs of production. A simulation model is then developed to study the effects of technical progress on pollution abatement, and applied to particular cases in developing countries. The results are compared with the projections of an environmental Kuznets curve: they reproduce the latter if policies were not to be introduced until per capita incomes reached levels comparable to those of the industrial countries when they first introduced their policies; but show dramatically lower and earlier peaks if policies were to be introduced earlier. The conclusion is shown to apply more generally, and it is argued that developing countries can aspire to addressing their environmental problems at a much earlier phase of development than the industrial countries before them.

Income inequality and CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caner Demir ◽  
Raif Cergibozan ◽  
Adem Gök
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Aggregate Consumption ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of income inequality on environmental quality in Turkey within the Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. In order to observe the short-run and long-run effects of income inequality on environmental quality, an autoregressive distributed lag bounds test on CO2 emission has been employed for the period 1963–2011 of Turkey. The results of the analysis reveal that there is a negative association between CO2 emission level and income inequality, which implies that increasing income inequality reduces environmental degradation in Turkey. Hence, a greater inequality in the society leads to less aggregate consumption in the economy due to lower propensity to emit in the richer households resulting in better environmental quality. The findings confirm an argument in the existing literature, which suggests that for developing countries, until a certain level of development, environmental degradation increases as income inequality in the society decreases. The results also confirm the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis.

scholarly journals Corruption and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Developed and Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (37) ◽  
pp. 7-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Kazerouni ◽  
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Hosein Asgharpour ◽  
Ali Aghamohamadi ◽  
Elham Zokaei alamdari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Kuznets Curve

scholarly journals Does the digital finance revolution validate the Environmental Kuznets Curve? Empirical findings from China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0257498
Author(s):  
Kaiyang Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Economic Activities

In recent years, digital finance has become a crucial part of the financial system and reshaped the mode of green finance in China. Digital finance has brought certain impact on economic growth, industrial structure, and resident income, which may affect pollution. The nexus of digital finance and environment in China is thus worth exploring. By revising the traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve model with income inequality variable, this paper decomposes the environmental effects of economic activities into income growth effect, industrial structure effect and income inequality effect, and use panel data of China’s provinces to conduct an empirical analysis. The results reveal the following: (1) the Environmental Kuznets Curve is still valid in sample, and digital finance can reduce air and water pollution (as measured through SO2 and COD emission) directly; (2) in the influence mechanism, digital finance can alleviate income inequality and promote green industrial structure, thus reducing pollution indirectly, but the scale effect of income growth outweighs the technological effect, which increases pollution indirectly; and (3) digital finance has a threshold effect on improving the environment, then an acceleration effect appears after a certain threshold value. From the regional perspective, digital finance development in eastern regions is generally ahead of central and western regions, and the effects of environmental improvement in the eastern regions are greater. According to the study, this paper suggest that digital finance can be an effective way to promote social sustainability by alleviating income inequality and environmental sustainability by reducing pollution.

scholarly journals Poverty, income inequality, and energy consumption based on EKC hypothesis: Evidence from developed and developing countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ekrem Akbas ◽  
Fuat Lebe
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Ekc Hypothesis ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, energy consumption, income inequality, and poverty within the framework of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in 14 developed and ten developing countries over the period 2000–2018. We employed the Fourier unit root test and Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Regression (DSUR) estimator to analyze the relationship between these variables. The results show that in developing countries, income inequality, poverty, and energy consumption positively affect CO2 emission. In contrast, in developed countries, there is no significant relationship between these variables. Moreover, we found out that the EKC hypothesis, which suggests an inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita income and CO2 emissions, is valid in developed countries and invalid in developing countries. We determined that the turning points obtained from regression analysis are outside of the sample period in five developing countries (Argentina, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Panama, and Uruguay). These results show that income inequality and poverty can indirectly affect environmental quality by energy consumption in developing countries.

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