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Economic growth and environmental quality : time series and cross-country evidence (English)

The authors explore the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality by analyzing patterns of environmental transformation for countries at different income levels. They look at how eight indicators of environmental quality evolve in response to economic growth and policies across a large number of countries and across time. Several conclusions are drawn; (1) income has the most consistently significant effect on all indicators of...
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Shafik, Nemat; Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit.

Economic growth and environmental quality : time series and cross-country evidence (English). Policy, research working papers ; no. WPS 904. World development report Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/833431468739515725

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