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... a Kuznets curve using panel data from an update of the Deininger-Squire ...the Kuznets hypothesis, but by using cross-sectional data, they are also not able to evaluate the typical trend of ... See full document

... The theoretical underpinnings of the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption with emissions have been discussed in the previous section. The relationship between economic growth and energy pollutants ... See full document

... The second line of research focuses on the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The EKC hypothesis postulates that the relationship between economic development and the environment ... See full document

... the increasing returns to scales property of abatement holds. The intuition behind this result is that when income is small, consumption is also small and the e ff ect of abatement e ff ort has a minor impact on ... See full document

... the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution to the timing of the process and to the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its ...the Kuznets curve as it ... See full document

... and GDP, usually proxied by per capita income. This inverted U-shaped rela- tionship is known as the empirical Kuznets curve (EKC). The pollution levels of a country can be linked with its level of ... See full document

... a curve named Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), environmental degradation and pollution would increase in the early stages of economic development, but beyond some levels, economic growth will lead ... See full document

... Himani (2010) conducted a study on the evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve taking data of 2004 -2008 of 24 Indian states. Taking four pollutants namely Suspended Particulate Matter, Respirable ... See full document

... The process of globalization has become advantage for emerging nations to foster their economic progress through production and investment that also uplift the amount of environmental pollution (Ahmed and Long 2013; ... See full document

... Kuznets [1] has intuited a relationship between per capita income and income inequality as an inverted-U-shaped curve. More precisely, if the per capita income increases, then the income inequality also ... See full document

... Environmental Kuznets Curve (henceforth, EKC), apparently because it mirrors the relationship between economic development and income inequality first observed by Kuznets ... See full document

... Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in the developing economies of West Africa using a total of 32 cross sectional observations for each of the 16 countries of West Africa given a balance panel of 512 ... See full document

... This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and environ- mental sustainability in the People’s Republic of China, PRC, by empirically es- timating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models ... See full document

... growth, energy consumption and foreign trade based on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Indonesia during the period 1971 – 2007. The Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodology is ... See full document

... Since the seminal paper of Grossman and Krueger (1991) on the potential environmental impacts of NAFTA, the work of Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992), which provided the backbone for the 1992 World Development Report, and ... See full document

... All variables are I (1), therefore Granger-Causality test can be used to examine the direction of causality between GDP and energy emissions. The results reported in Table-5 indicate that the GDP (GDP 2 ) affects the CO2 ... See full document

... environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis because it suggests the existence of a turning point in the economy that will lead to a sustainable development ... See full document

... The link between intelligence and air pollution is subject to controversy. Some studies report that intelligence has insignificant effect in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions. By using carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ... See full document

... In this study, building a simple model that incorporates static and dynamic elements, the relationship of financial development and economic growth on the environmental degradation is investigated together with the ... See full document

... The relationship between economic growth and the environment remains a debatable issue in the field of environment economics. Recent scientific evidence of global warming, resource depletion, air and water pollution have ... See full document