Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 147-168Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/0895330027157
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
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.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available