scholarly journals ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAGHOOB JAFARI ◽  
ANDREA ZIMMERMANN ◽  
MASOUD YAHOO ◽  
MARYAM FARHADI
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Kuznets Curve

Testing the environmental Kuznets curve in selected West African countries: empirical evidence estimation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Ebrima K. Ceesay ◽  
Christopher Belford ◽  
Momodou Mustapha Fanneh ◽  
Alpha Kargbo ◽  
Sidat Yaffa
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
West African ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
African Countries

scholarly journals Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susmita Dasgupta ◽  
Benoit Laplante ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
David Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Pollution Regulation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Industrial Societies

The environmental Kuznets curve posits an inverted-U relationship between pollution and economic development. Pessimistic critics of empirically estimated curves have argued that their declining portions are illusory, either because they are cross-sectional snapshots that mask a long-run “race to the bottom” in environmental standards, or because industrial societies will continually produce new pollutants as the old ones are controlled. However, recent evidence has fostered an optimistic view by suggesting that the curve is actually flattening and shifting to the left. The driving forces appear to be economic liberalization, clean technology diffusion, and new approaches to pollution regulation in developing countries.

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